Creating a frag rack

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I made a 3 tier frag rack out of white eggcrate and pvc for my soon to be frag tank. My question is what do I use to attach the pvc to the crate?
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I have always used the drill and zip tie method.
 

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I used loc tite on my egg crate and PVC rack and zip ties on my all egg crate rack.


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Couldn't you cut slits in the tops and bottoms of the pvc pieces so the egg crate kinda pushes into the slits? I have never made one so I don't actually know just looking at several and always thought that might work.
 

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I cut cross hatch slots where it would set flush with top of crate and used aquarium safe silicone to glue it together on one I made in the past.
 

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Couldn't you cut slits in the tops and bottoms of the pvc pieces so the egg crate kinda pushes into the slits? I have never made one so I don't actually know just looking at several and always thought that might work.

I was gonna suggest the same thing. I just saw this somewhere just can't find it. Four slits that the eegcrate will slide into. On another note, whenever I've used white eggcrate I have had a problem with it and algae. I read somewhere that it may leach phosphates.
 
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I was gonna suggest the same thing. I just saw this somewhere just can't find it. Four slits that the eegcrate will slide into. On another note, whenever I've used white eggcrate I have had a problem with it and algae. I read somewhere that it may leach phosphates.

I've heard this as well and then I've also heard just as many success stories so I figured id try my luck. If it doesn't work then I'll go with the black

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