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Thizzelle686
12/03/2007, 08:32 PM
I have a 29 gallon biocube with 30lbs of live rock and 15lbs of live sand with one 3 inch Coral beauty, A small goldbanded maroon clown with his false rose anemone, 1 green chromis, frogspawn, xenia, orange zoas, and daisy polyps. Also what would be a good sized cleaning crew for this tank.

frank arriaga
12/03/2007, 08:35 PM
pics please.thanks

reefman13
12/03/2007, 08:38 PM
You are absolutely fine with stocking. Some, if not most, have these tanks stocked heavier than this.

But, pics would also be nice....

dsn112
12/03/2007, 09:03 PM
If you practice good maintenance you can handle way more than u think. The problem you see most is people have too many fish and get lazy and stop doing water changes and testing.

Thizzelle686
12/03/2007, 10:02 PM
What size cleaning crew would be sufficient

reefman13
12/03/2007, 10:08 PM
I would say 4 astrea (algea) and 3 Nassuris, and 2 reef safe scarlet hermit crabs.

KCZoanthid
12/03/2007, 10:18 PM
I have a 30g high reef. 24 x 12 x 24 tall. Here is my cleaning crew, followed by my livestock and filtration.

2 nassarius snails for the sand bed
14 astrea snails for the glass
4 margarite snails
3 large red leg hermits
12 small blue leg hermits
A few hitchhiker serpant stars

Fish:
Diamond watchman goby 3"
Occelaris clown 2"
6-line wrasse 2"

Inverts:
9 colonies of different zoas. All colonies about 30 heads at the moment. Not really too big.
1 colony brown button polyps-- 5 heads
1 colony yellow polyps 12-15 heads
1 colony green striped mushrooms-- about 6 mushrooms
2 green fuzzy mushrooms
1 purple mushroom
1 Acro frag about 2"
2 large feather dusters


I am using a the large (23" wide) CPR HOB Aquafuge2 with built in skimmer. 5" DSB in the refugium. Also 5" DSB in the tank. 61 pounds of live rock. Cheato in the refugium.

I change 5---6g per week using 6-stage RO/DI and Oceanic salt. All parameters stable. No nitrates, no nitrites, no ammonia. Alk, pH, calcium, magnesium, iodine, O2 all within normal parameters.

1000 GPH turnover. No, thats not a typo. One thousand gallons per hour turnover.

:beer:

brandon7491
12/03/2007, 11:01 PM
in my 29gallon sps tank i have 3 yellow tail damsels,3 domino damsels, and one flame angel. never have had a fish loss in this tank and it has been up for 10mths. trates-0,trites-0,phos-0,mg1200,salinity 1.025 constant,alk 10,ca 450,amonia-0,ph 8.2