Setting up a 90 gallon reef tank

AC0DX · Sep 18, 2017

So I am the process of converting my 29 gallon over to reef and we are about 2 weeks into cycling the tank and have plenty of brown algae. Everything is going very well. As luck would have I was given a 90 gallon drilled tank with a sump, pump and reef controller. My question is this. Should I continue to cycle the 29? Or should I move everything over to the 90 and continue to cycle over there? I still need to source a light for the 90. I have a damsel in the 29. (I know fishless cycles are better, but LFS talked me into it before I read all the advice to not go that route). Thoughts?

sbash · Sep 18, 2017

flsalty · Sep 19, 2017

You are asking a bunch of reefers what they would do with two tanks...lol

Reefraft · Sep 19, 2017

I see 2 reefs

maybe do the 29 as an invert reef and the 90 as a full reef

AC0DX · Sep 19, 2017

Follow up question: What would be your "showcase" fish in a 90 reef? I am thinking a foxface but I just don't know all my options. So I want to hear your thoughts.

emcrae89 · Sep 19, 2017

Look at what you can afford. Bigger tanks can have a higher cost.
Otherwise keep both!!!

emcrae89 · Sep 20, 2017

AC0DX said:
Follow up question: What would be your "showcase" fish in a 90 reef? I am thinking a foxface but I just don't know all my options. So I want to hear your thoughts.

I love boxfish/cowfish...I know all the risks but I still love them! Too dangerous to keep in a 90gal fully stocked tho

deedubz · Sep 21, 2017

Cycle the 90 and keep the 29 for a quarantine tank. 29g would be big enough for any fish that'd end up in your 90.

Daniel@R2R · Sep 22, 2017

AC0DX said:
Follow up question: What would be your "showcase" fish in a 90 reef? I am thinking a foxface but I just don't know all my options. So I want to hear your thoughts.

Hmm...I'd probably go with a few really nice Fairy Wrasses. I really want a lineatus...but couldn't do it in my tank bc it's too small, but if I had a 90g...