Petco 29 Gallon build

[McCarrick]

Bought a 29 gallon as part of the dollar per gallon sale they always do. I have been wanting to do another reef tank for years(Had one several years ago then life happened and I took a break) it’s been a while so I am open for ideas and advice for sure! My wife agreed to this because I was wanting to do like a 55 gallon or larger build but she wanted to “ease” into the hobby I was like yeah we can do that because eventually it will become a drag tank or good quarantine. I spent time doing research and slowly started accumulating things and in the past few months this is what I have.
29 gallon Auqueon tank
Fluval 207 canister filter trashed their media and went with corse, medium, and Fine sponge then 270g of marine pure gems for bio filtration.
I had a 30 inch fluval marine 25k light bar I figured for this tank I’d use it when I do the big build all new lighting.
Hydor K evo 600gph
Hydor K Nano 425gph
Eheim jager 100w
Innovative marine self leveling mat since the tank is on an antique very sturdy dresser. What’s in the tank is:
30lbs live rock from TampaBay Saltwater (Thanks Richard!)
30lbs caribsea argalive reef grade sand
Red Sea Coral pro salt mix
6 mixed hermits
8 mixed snails
Coral banded shrimp
Mis bar black clown juvenile
Spotted Mandarin
Superman mushroom
7 headed torch
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star Polyps
Some sponges that came with rock that stuck it out and some brown Stoney corals that I can’t seem to figure out please comment if you know what they are!
I’ll keep updating as things change!

Update: I picked up a good sized Chalice for $30 it looks great under the blue lights haven’t decided on final placement but I kinda like where it is currently. Thoughts on placement?
Also I added a close up of my two residents

How's your mandarin doing? I would love to add one to my tank but I don't believe it's nearly mature enough

 

[Auflyfish]

How's your mandarin doing? I would love to add one to my tank but I don't believe it's nearly mature enough

He’s actually doing very well, I ended up upgrading the tank to a 55 gallon after a few months and that has really helped! I’m going to be doing a massive update to this thread as well as it has become a larger nicer tank, as well as I am in the planning/ building process of making a small coral farm out of a 115 gallon stock tank for torches, hammers, frog/octo, and goni’s as I have gotten pretty good at growing them quickly.

 

[McCarrick]

He’s actually doing very well, I ended up upgrading the tank to a 55 gallon after a few months and that has really helped! I’m going to be doing a massive update to this thread as well as it has become a larger nicer tank, as well as I am in the planning/ building process of making a small coral farm out of a 115 gallon stock tank for torches, hammers, frog/octo, and goni’s as I have gotten pretty good at growing them quickly.

That's awesome!