29 Gallon Reboot!

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Hey everyone!

After moving I've been forced to downsize the tank from the old 90 to a nice shiny new 29 gallon *wonk wonk wonk*. I'm adjusting to life as a nano reefer again and thought I'd post a little build thread.

It's a standard 29 gallon tall. I drilled the upper back with 2x 1.5" bulkheads and added a black acrylic overflow box. The return is a 3/4" flexible return.

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In the past, I have used black spray paint for the back, I decided to try something different this time and went with plastidip. I'm thinking it will hold up better long term, but I suppose we will see.

Sump I made from a 10 gallon and had 3 chambers.
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Then I saw this picture with the rinky dink skimmer and decided I was going to shove the Octo 250 from the 90 in there instead. I pulled all the baffles and made it a single chamber and am running a waaaaaaay bigger skimmer than necessary. In the last picture I was running my diy led light (which was on its last legs after a few years on a 15 gallon).

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I installed a float switch for an ato which is powered by an a qualifier from a 7 gallon tub... I mean reservoir (keeping it classy). Also running gfo in there. Pump is a dc variable speed pump as is the wavemaker. The brain is an old reef keeper lite.

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Dosing is via a 4 channel dosing pump and I'm dosing diy 2 part. Small hourly dosing for cal/alk and weekly few drops of mag. I'll get pics of that later.

Lighting is now upgraded as of 2 days ago. I got a rapidled Corona system that runs from the fishbit software (which I might upgrade from the RKL to a fishbit system soon). So far, I'm really diggin it, but I'll wait for longterm results before a true review. That's what's running in these pics...
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Stocking is just starting again. So nothing too crazy yet and actually no fish yet (although a wrasse is soon to come, I assure you...).

I'm sure I'll think of more to ad later, but this seemed like a decent first post.

Looking forward to updating this as I get back into the full swing of it and spend ALL of my money on coral again

Thanks for reading!
 
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As promised, here's the dosing pump setup and a non nuclear blue shot of one side of the tank.

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