29 gal build

So I finally got around to doing a salt water tank. I thought I would show the build.

The first night I set it up. Crush coral, bonneville dry rock, emperor 400 filter heater, marineland power heads.
Cloudy water


Clear


Some live rock!


More live rock! Thanks to (phys)


Got the hang on back skimmer and uv sterilizer. Lots of bubbles


Got the aqueon led


Built my first sump (and decided to go bigger lol)


Then I started buying expensive stuff:
5 stage uv filter


Mp10es


Ai vega


40 gal breeder made into a sump ( I know my sump is bigger then my dt )


Decided I needed a bigger stand, so I built one.



And all the pluming, filter sock, overflow, pump, ato, bigger heater, 30 lb more live rock, Fuji mud, and some algea.

Up and running!

Redoing the aqua scape


Again...


And again...


So that's the up to date build, I just did the picture above last night. And got a bunch of corals from a buddy. From start to today I am about 2 months in from first tank setup. Will keep posting as things change and hopefully go to a bigger tank when my wife gets over the shock $$$ of this one

Edited by Durff - January 30 2013 at 7:17pm

Love the stand it is nice looking. You might want to get ahold of Eric at aquarium creations and have him make you a drilled rimless that would fit perfectly on that stand. Just a thought.

Thanks! Yea, I'm thinking down the road that will be the plan. I built it so I could put something around a 90 gal on it latter. I'm trying to avoid having to do things twice.

So I've had the day off so I decided to take some pix of the coral in my tank























I'm still trying to find the best flow and light for some of them. But for now I'm going to try and keep my sh*t hooks out of the tank. I figure as hard as it may be I'm probable better off leaving it be.

An updated pix of the tank. Starting to wish I would have started out bigger. I'm hoping if I take good care of this one it will grow into a 120 gal tank on its own. But till then I will enjoy what I have. Enjoy!

Thanks, Yea that original stand doesn't leave any room for filtration. How do you run your light as far as intensity and time? I'm still trying to figure out best flow, lighting, and coral placement.

Edited by Durff - February 15 2013 at 8:31am

hey man nothing wrong with the 29 gallon club!

This is an awesome tank! has it really only been set up since Jan 2013? Have you had any issues with cyno? What salt mix are you using and what do you target for your parameters, alk, ca, mag, ph, etc?

Durff wrote: Thanks, Yea that original stand doesn't leave any room for filtration. How do you run your light as far as intensity and time? I'm still trying to figure out best flow, lighting, and coral placement.

I'm def no expert, but I run my sol at 55% at max for 2 hours. Sunrise is at 8am, which takes almost 2 hours to get to 35%, sunset is around 4pm but takes until 8pm to be fully off.

Placement... Well I have zoas high and mid, mushrooms high, mid, and bottom. Candy canes mid, all sps is mid-high to high. I just place stuff... If it likes it than I leave it. If not I'll move it around until I find the sweet spot.