Diary of my 29 gallon

[jcm2m9]

To start out I am going to show the progression pictures since when I bought the tank. I bought the tank already set up in April of '05. I believe it had only ben set up for a few months when I bought it for $400.

When I purchase it the tank only had 130w of 50/50 PC. Just a month ago I put a 175 20K XM on it. The tank has a 10 gallon sump with refugium. My return pump is a Mag 3 and my skimmer is CSS 65.

I am wanting to start a diary of what is going on in my tank so I thought I would start one here.

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[ZC]

looks way better with the MH lighting!!! doning good so far keep up the goodwork!

[Mikeeal]

Dang, nice progress. I love the black clowns too. How does that single bulkhead strainer do with surface film?

[piberoptikz]

Kool!

[jcm2m9]

Oh, sorry about that. The two pairs of clowns are no longer in there. I had to put my pair of black clowns in there for a week. Something happened in my 90 gallon where everything was trying to die on me. I got that all fixed and the black perculas are back in the 90.

James

[jcm2m9]

Here are a few more new pictures, plus some new zoos I picked up. I think they might be my favorite so far!

Here they are:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0787.jpg

I was messing with my brothers Cannon and finally figure out how to get some good pics with it. Here are some other pics of my 29.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0795.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0794.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0792.jpg

Also, i am wanting to put a closed loop on it. What would be a good pump to use? I am running a mag 3 for my return pump. I was thinking a mag 5 or 7 through a scwd? What do you guys thinks?

[sidjam]

i'm setting up a 29g sps tank that i'm going to use a panworld 50px-x with a om squirt on a closed loop.

[travisurfer]

nice tank

[panic]

Nice! How 'bout some pics with the new Acro and Digi? I dig the zoos - def trade for some

[vanmo92]

SWEET!!!

[jcm2m9]

I will get some tomorrow. I am still letting them get used to the tank, plus I am getting a sun coral tomorrow. I can not wait!

After these I am going to have to stop for a while. I need to put soem stuff in my 90.

[jcm2m9]

Sorry it took so long to get the updated pictures up.

Here is the newest picture of my tank that I just took. I have recently added a few corals a Cluster Acro, Red Millipora and a Sun Coral. I also bought a fungia from a LFS.

I love my 29 gallon tank, right now I like it more then my 90 gallon. It is much easier to take care of and much cheaper. I still want to add a closed loop to it, but I need to save some money up first. I am not sure what else I want to add to it. I think I need to frag my chalice because it is really too big for the tank. I am thinking I want to frag it in 3 pieces and keep two for me and sell/trade one of them. I have not decided yet.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Progression/IMG_0504.jpg

Fungia
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0517.jpg

Sun Coral
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y204/jcm2m9/29%20Gallon%20Reef/IMG_0502.jpg

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[pcpm75]

Love the pics!! Keep'em coming...

[XxReefManxX]

it kinda started bad but its pretty sweet now its way better then mine.:rollface:

[jcm2m9]

I am sorry my new coral is not a Millipra it is a Montipora Digita. I believe. Right panic?

[Yankeefan91]

Jcm2m9-Great looking tank! What is the GHP rating on the coralife skimmer? Also what is the coral in the btween the blue shrooms and the zoos?

[jcm2m9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6666451#post6666451 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Yankeefan91
Jcm2m9-Great looking tank! What is the GHP rating on the coralife skimmer? Also what is the coral in the btween the blue shrooms and the zoos?

It is a Corallife Super Skimmer 65, which I believe works perfect for this setup. It fits nicely in a partioned 10 gal sump.

There are several corals between the blue mushrooms and the zoos. There is a brain, fungia, candy cane coral and the one that is leaning against the rock to the immediate right I am not exactly sure what it is. It was sold to me as a green eye cup coral, but I beleive it is an alien eye enchino. Some have also said it migh be a chalice, but I think it is an enchino. I am going to trade a frag with a local reefer so hopefully we can figure out what it is.

Does anyone have any comments on what it might be?

[gfk]

How does that single bulkhead strainer do with surface film?

[jcm2m9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6671620#post6671620 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gfk
How does that single bulkhead strainer do with surface film?
It does pretty well, I keep quite a bit of surface aggitation and never realy see anything build up on the surface.

[cateyes]

looking good!!!!!! what camera did you use to take those pics??? thanks

[Yankeefan91]

There are several corals between the blue mushrooms and the zoos. There is a brain, fungia, candy cane coral and the one that is leaning against the rock to the immediate right I am not exactly sure what it is. It was sold to me as a green eye cup coral, but I beleive it is an alien eye enchino. Some have also said it migh be a chalice, but I think it is an enchino. I am going to trade a frag with a local reefer so hopefully we can figure out what it is.

The one in pic 11.

[jcm2m9]

I believe picture 11 is the blue musrooms. Quote the picture and I will tell you what it is.

I took the pictures with a Cannon A95 ( I believe). It is my g/f's camera and she has it right now.

I just bought a Workhorse 5, T12 endcaps, T12 mounting brackets, and a 75W 24" URI superactinic. They should be here on Friday. I can not wait to see what the tank looks like with this bulb. I wil try to post pictures on Friday night on Saturday afternoon!

I am sooo excited!

[NANOFOOL]

hey the tank looks great

[jcm2m9]

I am currently in the process of designing a tank to replace my 29g. It is going to be a 24" x 24" x 16" cube.

Here is a link to the build thread. 2' cube (http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=807638)