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guppiman13

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Just got new tank. Its a 29 gallon. I'm going salt and was wondering if anyone had some cool ideas about what I should put in it. i have already thought clowns put would be open to any ideas.

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want it to be cheap
 
How about some coral
and some invertebrates? You could even put in some damsels, maybe even a dwarf Angel, if you want to. A29 gallon is really not big enough for saltwater fish.
 
I have to agree it wont be the cheepest thing but go corals.
If not buy lr and inverts but mine as well not go cheep and just do corals u only need 120-150 watts which wont be that bad
 
wat r u doing on filtration?
 
If you want to go cheap, forget any corals or reef type setups. You're going to want to do a FOWLR (fish only with live rock).

If I were to do a 30 gallon, I would go for some clowns and other damsels, maybe a dward lion if suitable for a 30.
 
don't mix damsels and clowns, they're both damsels and are going to fight non-stop in a tank that small unless you get very lucky. dwarf lions really need a larger tank and most dwarf angels do as well(the exceptions are quite expensive) if you go with soft corals then they can be pretty cheap, especially if you go to a local reef club were sometimes you'll get frags for free or nearly so. don't be afraid to take your time and invest money into your tank over time, i think i recently added up the costs and found i've spent about $300 on my 29g reef but that has been over a 6mo period, only things i've got left to add that i can think of so far are maybe about 10~12lbs more live rock and more corals.
 
try grammas or cardinals, maybe a fairy wrasse or some kind of chromid.
there's really a lot of options for 29 you just gotta think a littel more.
also pretty much any type of goby, except for the largest ones.
i have two 29 gallons at home, 1 has a yellow headed sleeper goby, a blackcap gramma, a perc clown, a blue chromis, and a firefish, it's mostly an SPS reef and i have a few shrimp and sponges in there for color.
soft corals are also nice as the wave about, in my 29 biocube i have a blacka nd gold chromis, a velvet damsel, a molly, and a blue devil damsel, i also have a baby fuzzy lionfish, i'm going to relocate the damsels, once i get a 55+ tank going (should be around june) and the lion is going to have tyhe tank to himself. i have a head of green star polyps, some hammer coral, a few red shrooms, and some candycane corals in that tank.
 
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