Hello everyone,
I recently was given my neighbors 29 gallon Bio-Cube. Long story short, the tank has been up and running for about three years and until last week it was full of live rock and a single coral. Right now it has about two inches of water in the tank and all of the live rock is in a friends tank while I fix the rim. The silicone will be cured by Saturday and re-filled with rock and water on Sunday.
I want to first get my clean-up crew settled in and that will include:
- two anemone crabs (I plan to get one by the end of the year).
- one cleaner shrimp
- three or four of these small blue hermit crab guys (they are about a quarter to a half an inch in size and are supposedly good at cleaning)

Then these are the guys I am looking at: (of course they will be placed in the tank every 4-6 weeks after time in the QT)
- three or four firefish
- a mated pair of Ocellaris clowns
- one or two tube worms
- a true goby or a golden-head goby
- a Royal Gramma
- an anemone ( I saw this brown longer tentacled one that looked amazing!)
- and finally some bubble corals and polyps (not sure what kinds though)

What are your thoughts on the bio-load once all of these guys have been added.
Also, I went to the LFS to check out the test kits and API has two marine kits, the Master Reef Kit and the Master Saltwater Kit.....Should I get both? The Master Saltwater Kit looks to be the most important since it contains the pH, the ammonia, the nitrite, and the nitrate tests.
If you guys have any suggestions, thoughts, or advice for any of this, please, please, PLEASE tell me.

Thanks!
Mary

That seems like a lot of livestock. In 29 gallons you should only have 3-4 fish.

The saltwater master test you will want for sure. the reef master test is mainly for coral keeping. On top of what is included in that you will want phosphate and magnesium testing. I dont use that test but if it doesn't have alkaline testing you will need that also for corals.

That is good that you will QT, I have read some sad stories of people losing whole tanks due to a new fish bringing ich or whatever. Remember QT for at least 10 days to make sure. Welcome to the hobby!

If I should only have 3-4 fish then I'd like the two clowns and some of the firefish. Do tube worms and the anemone count as "fish"? Because I'd love to include those too.