29 Gallon Reef Tank Setup Help

[zgoldsmith23]

Hey ladies and gents, I am starting a 29 gallon reef tank and need a lot of help. I have been snooping around here and about five other forums and decided I should join and just ask for help. I have been researching for about two months and continue to find out new information constantly. Books, magazines, online articles, etc have all passed before my eyes. I need to know what filtration should I use for the 29g tank. I have talked to the owners of my 3 LFSs and each have had their own say.

The first owner told me to use Live Rock, Live Sand, an Undergravel Filter, and a quality Protein Skimmer and I would be set.

The second owner seemed a little bit more eager to sell me something than he did to actually help me; he told I need Live Rock, Live Sand, a Sump, Refugium, Calcium Reactor, UV Sterilizer, Canister Filter, and a Protein Skimmer.

The third owner pretty much confirmed what the first owner told me and said I could always add a sump and refugium if I wanted to later on in life.

Any help, tips, advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S. I'm in no hurry to get this thing started!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it,
Zach Goldsmith

 

[mr.reef24]

Hey ladies and gents, I am starting a 29 gallon reef tank and need a lot of help. I have been snooping around here and about five other forums and decided I should join and just ask for help. I have been researching for about two months and continue to find out new information constantly. Books, magazines, online articles, etc have all passed before my eyes. I need to know what filtration should I use for the 29g tank. I have talked to the owners of my 3 LFSs and each have had their own say.

The first owner told me to use Live Rock, Live Sand, an Undergravel Filter, and a quality Protein Skimmer and I would be set.

The second owner seemed a little bit more eager to sell me something than he did to actually help me; he told I need Live Rock, Live Sand, a Sump, Refugium, Calcium Reactor, UV Sterilizer, Canister Filter, and a Protein Skimmer.

The third owner pretty much confirmed what the first owner told me and said I could always add a sump and refugium if I wanted to later on in life.

Any help, tips, advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S. I'm in no hurry to get this thing started!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it,
Zach Goldsmith

well the first initial thing is to get the tank, a good source of saltwater, protein skimmer, heater, power heads, lighting will depend on what corals you seek to keep, you can do a fuge which I recommend 110% for all reef tanks. And, that should get you going oh yeah and a good test kit so you can monitor your tanks initial cycle. If you need anything else send me a Private Message anytime.

mr.reef24

 

[BIGgourami]

Hey ladies and gents, I am starting a 29 gallon reef tank and need a lot of help. I have been snooping around here and about five other forums and decided I should join and just ask for help. I have been researching for about two months and continue to find out new information constantly. Books, magazines, online articles, etc have all passed before my eyes. I need to know what filtration should I use for the 29g tank. I have talked to the owners of my 3 LFSs and each have had their own say.
i've kept a 29 reef for a while...

The first owner told me to use Live Rock, Live Sand, an Undergravel Filter, and a quality Protein Skimmer and I would be set.
sure

The second owner seemed a little bit more eager to sell me something than he did to actually help me; he told I need Live Rock, Live Sand, a Sump, Refugium, Calcium Reactor, UV Sterilizer, Canister Filter, and a Protein Skimmer.

LIAR!

The third owner pretty much confirmed what the first owner told me and said I could always add a sump and refugium if I wanted to later on in life.

Any help, tips, advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S. I'm in no hurry to get this thing started!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it,
Zach Goldsmith

i had an aquaclear 70, seaclone 100 and coralife 24" halide on mine, with about 32 pound of LR and 30 pounds of LS

fine like wine in the sunshine for about 2 years, before i merged it with my 75

 

[Rockbass6]

If you haven't bought the tank yet you could look into the nanocube, aquapod, or the 29 gallon biocube. That way you can hide the heater in the built in sump.
I have a stock aquapod with 2 clownfish and a bunch of zoanthid corals.

My setup is a aquapod 24 a ton of live rock, and some crushed coral.(be sure to rinse the crushed coral really well before adding it to the tank. I have probably around 30 pounds of rock.
I have no heater because my lights are strong enough that my temperature stays pretty consistant.
I have a koralia 1 and a koralia nano to add more flow.
I use chemipure plus and and a polishing pad in my sump, I don't like using rock in the sump because critters will get caught in the pump.
I do a 2 gallon waterchange biweekly.
My cleanup crew consists of snails only a mix of nasuris, mexican turbo, and the sand sifting kinds, I don't use crabs because they eat snails and like to knock rocks over.
My lights I have on two separate timers running blue atinic bulb for 9 hours and the white with the blue for 3 hours and my corals do fine with just dosing reefplus a capful in between waterchanges.
Good luck just keep reading up and don't run into corals setup your tank with the rock and get a clown fish or something and maintain that before you move onto corals, once you have it setup and get in the flow you will see that it isn't that hard to keep a basic sw tank with a few fish and soft corals like zoanthids and shrooms.

I picked up my aquapod on craigslist with the test kit and replacement bulbs for $80 bucks, 6months old. The guy was upgrading to a 90, I got pretty lucky! lol