My reef tank

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Hi everyone, I'm new here and I just thought I would show everyone my tank. It's 29 gal. I converted it from a fresh water tank a year and a half ago. It has a Sea Clone 100 and a power filter, a power head, and 186 watts of VHO and PC lighting. I will soon upgrade to metal halides. Nothing fancy, but when you're 17 money is not exactly in abundance. I love this tank, cheap and humble as it is.
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Lookin Good Zog!!

Lots of effort, thought and elbow grease goes a long way. I enjoy the well established, thought out and clever set ups I see on the various forum way more than the ones that just look like they have piles of money thrown at them.
 
nice setup. the benifit of that 29 gal is you can make an asthetic coral reef that seems very alive due to the smaller space you can fill with smaller less expensive peices of beautiful coral . I used to have a 29 gal before I upgraded to my 75 gal at present. Now I feel my coral is very spread out. I think your fish and coral choice look great.
 
Well, i love it!
looks beautiful and it is a really good use of space. It is very clean and i really like that about tanks. The only down side is the stand!, you should buy a wood or metal one, would make it perfect :)

ps. A yellow tang would top it off, or a partner to the clown fish, another great fish are the fire fish, small and beautiful
 
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You really shoudl put a tang in a tank that small. They have the potential to be rather larger and need a much longer tank to live in, a 75 gallon is best. A dwarf angel is probably a better choice.

The tank looks great.
 
Tangs are too big. My yellow lives in a 75 gal salt and is growing quickly. A flame angel might be risky. Most people I've talked to have who kept angels in reeef tanks soon got rid of them. They nip polyps and can get real agressive. But nipping those nice corals would be a real shame
 
Thank you all for your comments. Yeah, I though about a tang a while back, but as you said, they get to big to fast. I used to have a dwarf angel, coral beauty to be precise, but she was mean to the turbo snails so she got evicted. The clown has a partner, but it's in the 90 gallon FOWLR because they didn't get along. The cardinal and the chromis both were in pairs, but about a month ago they both suddenly died. Water was fine and everything, they weren't acting sick either, I don't know. I have a firefish in my FOWLR that I want to put in the reef, but catching the little bugger isn't easy. A friend has offered me a bt anemone. I'd like to get it, do you think the tank has enough room? Right now the clown lives in the button polyps.
 
Hey,
I was just admiring your tank... I would like to set up a 29 gallon this summer as my first attempt at saltwater, so I'm really interested in seeing other tanks this size. how many lbs. live rock do you have in there? how much did all those corals cost?
 
Hi, Biogirl, I have about 40 pounds of rock. The corals, well, the tree corals were given to me, the frogspawn was given to me, the hairy shrooms were given to me, though the pet store said that they were 70 dollars. The button polyp colony was about $30, the green starbursts cost me $28, the xenia was $25, the devils hand was traded for some tree coral frags, the rock anemones were about $15 apiece, and the rest I got from GARF last summer: the tiny sps frags on top, the pink hair stuff, the sarcophyton(too small to see in the picture) and a few other frags that have died. They were sps and just didn't get enough light. As you can see, I only bought about half of the corals I have, I was lucky enough to meet some people who had frags to spare. The devils hand was given to me because it was dying. The frogspawn was a tip for cleaning somebody's tank. The hairy shrooms were given to me by the local pet store lady for helping her out one saturday with her tanks. I try to bum stuff for free as it is hard to come by corals where I live and mail order is so darn expensive because of the shipping. Our local pet store has had about 3 corals for sale in the last 2 years, and they have only done saltwater for that long. Sometimes I trade too. My tree coral does very well and I usually have people who want to trade for it. The picture is very recent, like yesterday, and a week ago I thinned out a ton of tree corals. They were choking out the polyps and growing in some bad places. If you want to get corals for a great price, I would try GARF. the website is listed above. They often have good specials, the one I got was six softies and six sps for a hundred bucks! The only problem for me was my location made shipping a lot more and I didn't get the gurantee because they had to use UPS instead of their normal company, so I paid as much for shipping as I did for the corals. Good luck with your tank! Saltwater is way worth it. I have set up several fresh tanks since I switched to saltwater but they just don't hold my interest long when I have my saltwater tanks in the other room, so they always get taken down in the interest of time and money. I do still like oscars though. I never get tired of them, but that's off the subject.
By the way, there are a couple of neat 29 gal. reefs on http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/winreeftankpics/ and a really neat one on http://www.melevsreef.com/29g.html
 
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sweet, thanks :) I hope my new tank can look as good as yours someday!!
edited: I just checked out that GARF site, it's really great, lots of neat stuff on there! I really like how they encourage using primarily non-wild specimens, since for both fresh and salt i always feel bad when i think of taking things out of their home to go in a tank. thanks for pointing me in their direction :D
 
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