Fresh to salt 29 gal.

I disagree. Don't let this comment bring you down. As stated above by nanomania, would be a good fit for your tank. Just go slow and be patient. Research, research, research.

 

Nanos are for more experienced people...much harder to keep params stable.

If he/she wants to attempt it, I'm not gonna stop them...just trying to save some fish/corals lives.

 

I know I lost a lot of fish but that was over the corse of 4 months and I had two ich outbreaks I didn't know how to deal with at the time (in other words I was a MAJOR noob).

 

whoa whoa whoa man! stop with all the negativity! why would you try to convince someone not to join in on this wonderful hobby??

sure its a smaller tank but seriously 29 gallons is hardly a nano. they are still fairly easy to keep stable as opposed to say an 8 gallon biocube.

as for saving fish/corals lives thats ridiculous. no one wants their livestock to die but everyone exeperiences it. i can guarentee that you have along with everyone else in this hobby. even public aquariums suffer fish/coral loss. be reasonable here man.

 

+1 110%

FTR, I was "just a kid" when I started my first SW tank. It was only a 20g, and we didn't have all the resources and technology that we have today. And no, I never lost anything. I even managed to keep a Condy nem alive under standard fluorescent lighting.

 

haha yeah i know how that is! i started in fourth grade. had a 20 gallon tank with a fluorescent strip light. tank had a condy and two fiji devil damsels. had like 6 pounds of live rock and just a hang on the back power filter. and everything went great. so you can really look at it however you like.

 

i researched for almost 1yr before getting into marine, i also had experience with simple FW tank, then a few years of planted, then got into reefing.... dont just start like this..... research and then start, take knowledge from local reefers and not the LFS...

 

1) buy refractometer to measure salt
2)buy a good quality salt
3) Auto topoff system
4)wavemaker
5) skimmer twice the size then recomended
6)rock and sand
7)ammonia, nitrite and nitrate test kit salifert brand
8)let u tank cure for atleast a month, i know thats too much, but its the best...
9)in that 1 month, research on fishes and corals
10)buy your first fishes as chromis, then clowns and start with soft corals like zoas
11)select a good lighting, i prefer led.
12) enjoy reefing.....

 

Not to be rude, but I actually knew all of this already. Funny thing is now this may sound odd, but I know more about salt then fresh. I've been researching on salt tanks for over a year and a half now. (seems longer ) But thanks this is great advise. But you left out one thing LFS ARE EVIL!!!! I was told that I could put a banded cat shark in a 90 gal.