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Jayjigga just sent me over here at the great personal risk of major bannage from the RC site. I've been out of the game for a couple of years after a tank crash and becoming a dad but I'm getting ready to start back up with a simple 29g reef.

Just thought I'd pop in and say hi to everyone!

-Anthony
 
Hello and welcome bro.. Jay is an awesome dude if u need frags or anything to start u off let me knw.. I'll hook u up with a couple
 
Thanks everyone! It will be a simple build, my last real reef was a 58g RR Oceanic, it crashed in 2010 due to a dead heater that I didn't have a backup for. Mixed reef, SPS/LPS and some zoas. This time around, I'm going far more simple, just a 29g AGA deal that will mostly be softies and LPS. I don't have the space for anything bigger at this point, but I hate not having a reef. Nothing complex, I'll treat this like I would treat my picos, which regular large water changes rather than a sump and gizmos, though I may run some reactors off the back for GFO and carbon. Think you could tape a LED light to the side of a TLF reactor and have a chaeto reactor?

I'll start the stand build next week, and am starting to order what I need to get set up. Since it's softies in a smaller tank I have to decide what kind of flow I want, I might go more low-medium.

So, 29AGA, LED lights, No sump, one false perc clown (locally bred), 1 inch aragonite sand bed, live rock, softies and some LPS, no skimmer, low-medium flow, auto-RO/DI-topoff (JBJ+aqualifter), weekly 20-25% water changes + more if water quality suffers.

I have a HOB fuge that would fit lying around, but I'm not sure I want it just yet. At the same time, I felt the key to my last tanks water quality was the fuge in my sump... which I actually enjoyed looking at more than the tank at times with all the little snails, starfish, pods, sponges and crabs that lived amongst the plants.

Want to treat like a pico, and have to stop myself from getting too complex... the time I used to invest with dosing and measuring and topoffs and all I want to eliminate. Going to build a DIY water change siphon that pulls the exact percentage out into a bucket everytime so I can stay on it, but not spend hours each week managing it, or buying little computers to do it for me. Someday, when the kids are a bit older (I have a one-week old and a three year old) I imagine I'll have time again, and space (because I can convince the kids it would be cool, who would help convince the wife) to set up a larger system again with all that fun stuff.
 
Yay! Welcome to the party! I'm just looking out for the community and figured we would benefit from having a senior RC member and he could meet the new generation :)
The tank I was talking about would be a biocube at a great price. It'll be just a little more than the traditional 29 you were thinking about.

Bask in the community; we're here to help.
 
Also, thanks so much for the frags offer Jeff! My style is sort of a get 2-3 polyps, let it grow into a garden type. That's something odd I've found about myself, when I want something for the tank, I'm all about instant gratification and how fast can I get it. When it comes to corals inside however, I love watching polyps grow into colonies, but would never consider purchasing a colony. The slow patience of that is one of my favorite parts.

I'll have a lot of zoas in this guy, a plate coral, some frogspawn and candy cane, bright things that pop. Some ricordea or rhodactis maybe.
 
It will be a very interesting with the chaeto reactor.. But might PITA to clean all the time.

Let us know if you do proceed ;)
 
Yeah, I feel like a beginner all over again. Two years gives you a lot of time to forget. I can't remember the names of things and there are all new LFS to check out. LEDs scare and confuse me, when I fell out it was all T5s and MH, LEDs with $2000 systems that broke easily and patent fights. Now LED seems like a very viable way to go.

Every day I thought about starting a new reef back up... so now I'm doing it. Someone please take my freshwater fish so I can move this along :)
 
What kind of cleaning are you talking about the the chaeto reactor? Like... detritus or constant cutting due to growth, or the chaeto working its way into the sponges? I hadn't considered that.
 
caragol said:
Yeah, I feel like a beginner all over again. Two years gives you a lot of time to forget. I can't remember the names of things and there are all new LFS to check out. LEDs scare and confuse me, when I fell out it was all T5s and MH, LEDs with $2000 systems that broke easily and patent fights. Now LED seems like a very viable way to go.

Every day I thought about starting a new reef back up... so now I'm doing it. Someone please take my freshwater fish so I can move this along :)
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You might want to try gcca.net and someone will be happy too :D
 
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