29 gallon Reef Ready Aquarium?

Jasonanatal · 09-29-2007, 10:32 PM

Hello everyone, I was curious to know if anyone has every come across a 29 gallon Reef Ready aquarium. I'm interested in sizing thing down a bit due to associated cost and would love if I could move to something like this. Also would they happen to make a wooden canopy for a 29 gallon aquarium since I'm interested in mounting two retrofit Metail Halide lamps within it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

**CarmieJo** · 09-29-2007, 10:54 PM

I think that Bio-Cube has a 29 all in one but I am not sure I have seen a traditional rectangular 29 RR tank. I know of several people who have drilled 29's. BTW, I think you would just about boil water in a 29 with 2 MH's! OK, that's an exaggeration but I think it would be WAY too much light and heat.

Jasonanatal · 09-30-2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by CarmieJo

I think that Bio-Cube has a 29 all in one but I am not sure I have seen a traditional rectangular 29 RR tank. I know of several people who have drilled 29's. BTW, I think you would just about boil water in a 29 with 2 MH's! OK, that's an exaggeration but I think it would be WAY too much light and heat.

CarmieJo, I'm actually going to install the 1/15 Horsepower Titanium Chiller into the system. that should tank care of the heat issue associated with the installation of the Metal Halide Lights. I figure the with the equipment that I currently have I can make an awesome 29 gallon setup and keep overall associated cost to a minimum.

**CarmieJo** · 09-30-2007, 02:02 AM

That should beat the heat! You will just have to be sure that you don't light stress the corals. I think it was in Dana Riddle's talk at MACNA where he talked about too much light causing the fluorescent pigments in corals to actually diminish. The study results are supposed to be published this fall.

Jasonanatal · 09-30-2007, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CarmieJo

That should beat the heat! You will just have to be sure that you don't light stress the corals. I think it was in Dana Riddle's talk at MACNA where he talked about too much light causing the fluorescent pigments in corals to actually diminish. The study results are supposed to be published this fall.

CarmieJo, I'm actually going to cascade the lights so that each runs for a period of of 4 hours each with a two hour overlap so that not only does it mimic the sun crossing the sky but it provides only 2 hours of full intensity mimicing high noon.