my new 29 galloon reef journal

[gemini]

my friend gave me his old 29 gallon tank that was sitting in his garage empty so i decided to make it a reef tank that would be ready for the frag swap tommorow the 24th. so basically ill be setting a reef tank in a day!!!!
its an experiment but im pretty sure it will work out cause im going to be using cured live rock and live sand so i highly doubt there will be a cycle. i will be getting the cured rock from Ron (rbdesigns)along with a pair of clowns and a heater(and a carpool!!!) so heres a list of the equipment that i have and that is soon to come

29 gallon glass tank
150-200 watt heater
25-30 pounds of live rock
30-60 pounds of live sand
2x maxi jet 1200 powerheads
250 watt 20 k metal halide

and in the not so near future (unless i can find one for a REALLY good price)
a protien skimmer!

i plan to do bi-weekly 25 percent water changes and to keep both lps and sps and maybe a couple softies at the bottom

pics coming in a day or to

[DaChrisDude]

sounds good xavier...

[gemini]

thanks

[gemini]

full tank,seio 820,heater

[gemini]

yeah my pics worked!!!!

[SDFISHMAN]

Hey Gemini I see you got it up and running.. I must have missed you at the fragswap but I still have a skimmer or 2 I'll PM you later...

[gemini]

ok thanks yeah we got there kinda late!

[flyingcatfish]

u know what my tank ur showing looks pretty good

[gemini]

micheal! u got a account on here [welcome] ya ur tank is being put to good use better than ur garage,btw when are you going to get an tank>./>.,*Y*&^#? u need to and ull find some CRAZY deals on here call me if u have any questions on the site i have over 234 more posts than u haha!

to everyone else this if my friend micheal he lives in murrieta and needs to get a tank set up so if u have a welcome or a good deal on stuff for a 20 gallon fowlr(ill make it a reef soon enough) please let me know and ill get it to him cause i doubt hell ever check this site

[gemini]

UPDATE!:i got my halide hung up finaly after relocating the tank to san clemente (southern orange county)and up 29 stairs!(fun when carring 2 5 gallon containers at a time!) and got some "play sand" from lowes for 5 bux!
now i have a 4-5" sand bed and a 250 watt halide and im getting more frags as soon as possible so im ready to go now! so now im off to find great deals on zoa frags!

[DaChrisDude]

sweet Xavier. Glad to hear things are progressing.

make sure to update your location. :)

[gemini]

ya thanks chris! either tommarow or sunday i will be getting a black background to make the heater blend in!

[jacksandgo]

Ohhh...is that the pure aragonite "play sand" that everyone's been talking about for years? Used to be at Home Depot called "South Sea" but now some other company owns it.

Update: Hmm...guess not...it's probably this one...the silica sand. I've read good stuff about it, too, so good find:

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=10392-286-14104&detail=cr&lpage=none

[gemini]

jacksandgo,ya its the stuf in the link,updates will come later today probably in about 4 minutes

[gemini]

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[gemini]

the place we moved into (we now live with a roommate:() but we dont have to pay the utilities and she loves my tank so it works out good:) as for corals anything really i was going to make this tank either zoas only ( i love zoas) or mixed and i think im going for mixed cause an intire tank with tons of zoas would be colorful but also the same texture and i wanted to mix it up a little so whatever i can get at a good deal im going to get!know what i mean>? also yes that is play sand,and i like it alot,its a tiny bit on tha gray side but u cant tell with the lights on but its really fine and as u can see from the picture it gets blown areound quite easily so i have to find away to change that!

[BigAir]

How long have you had that CBB, and where did you get it?

[gemini]

umm ive had the CBB for about a week but im trading him for some frags on saturday but i got him at the reef room in dana point

[DaChrisDude]

Hey good to see you here on the board again Xavier. Tank's looking good, love that clown - beautiful. Let me know if you're coming down through Esco, I can also find something either free or cheap....

[gemini]

thanks guys ill let you know if im down there
another subject are any of u guys going to reef a palooza tommarow? its gona be friking awsome!

[gemini]

well update the 29 gallon(see i know how to spell it) has now been transformed into a anemone and clownfish tank! i now have 2 gbtas (one is huge and one is tiny) in the tank along with the original clown and a baby i just got yesterday they have both already hosted the anemone they look awsome i cant find the cable for my crappy camera so no pics yet but im searching for a better camera by x-mas time (crosses fingers)

[gemini]

alright update
the whole clown tank didnt really work out, both of the clowns died from unknow reasons :( but that was a while back i have done a horrible job keeping this thing updated but i will try to keep it updated now, i have sold my anemones and frags so all i have now is a ORA green millie and 4 green chromis i moved all the rest of my frags down to fallbrook. hopefully tommarow the rock and tank will be down there also. im planning on adding more rock because a friend of mine is getting a shipment of TBS rock but he ordered to much so he is going to give me the left overs that i think i will have to cure in a seperate tank and he also has a 24 gallon aquapod that is just holding a bunch of rock that i might be able to get from him for pretty cheap but other than that im now trying to get the tank ready for sps getting ready for this years reef a palooza in august (wow the one year mark!!!) so i hope to get 2x koralia #3's for flow and the seio 820 i got from Harold (thanks alot) and then i need a new 250 watt bulb soon and im thinning out my sand bed to about 1 inch so thats it i will try to get pics soon

[gemini]

I got a koralia 4 instead of the 2 koralia 3's, so there is a lot of flow going through the tank! But the tank is coming to its end!
I am breaking this tank down and moving it all into a smaller 10 gallon aquarium with my new inhabitant, a mantis shrimp (N. Wennerae) as the main star of the show!
So keep your eyes peeled for the start of that thread!


Anything you guys want to know?