Low budget 29 gallon bowfront suggestions

[Bludgeonfish56]

Hi everyone I decided that I wanted to set up a marine tank after a few years of having quit and gone back to freshwater. I need some ideas.

[craig1560]

Neat!

[MeepNand]

My experience is that macroalgaes are cheap and nice looking, and can thrive in a lot of light and flow requirements. They also suck up nitrates, which is nice.

[gonebad395]

What's low budget?

[Simonsays]

Low budget.....hahahaha. ????☹️????

 

we got a 12 gallon, thinking it can't be all that bad.  Set up cost was less than $300.  No worries.    Tripled that on getting stuff to maintain.  

 

Not it to mention my terrible coral habit....   this wasn't even susposed to be my tank.  My other half wanted it.  I got hooked.  

[xAyanex]

I have a Coralife Biocube 29 that is somewhat a bowfront. It was by no means a cheap setup but it's my first tank so I wanted the best of everything early on (save for lights) so I didn't feel the need to upgrade later.

 

I don't really know what is considered low budget. Mine was low budget for my budget. But my budget is possibly larger than the average budget.

[Clown79]

The lowest budget method will be setting up the following method.

 

Are you planning coral because lighting isn't cheap.

 

Tank

Liverock/dry reef rock

Livesand(caribsea)

Hang on filter like aquaclear or api superclean(i prefer the superclean it has a surface skimmer)

Heater: eheim jagger or aqueon pro

Powerhead(hydor, sicce, or jebao)

 

Lighting depends on tank dimensions but here are a few to look into for budget.

 

Aquaillumination

Nanobox

Mars aqua

Coral compulsion par38

Current orbit

Aquamaxx Nemolight