Frag Basket

[officialreefbros]

I tried to design a frag basket for a friend. The idea was to fill it with gravel mostly for mushroom propagation. So I put smaller holes on the bottom and lower sides to help keep everything in and very low flow. It's about 4x8x2in.

I'm thinking about trying to round the edges and clean it up.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement please!

 

[crazyfishmom]

I like it. I can see it being good for nems too. If it could be magnetic and designed to go on a corner that would be amazing.

 

[officialreefbros]

Thanks! I haven't tried out any magnets yet, the throught was for it sitting in the bottom. Do you know how people add in magnets? Just pause the print with real tight tolerances to slide it in?

 

[mastersushi]

Looks great. Even if you rounded the sides. It would not make a big difference because a square basket will always look like a basket. If you want it to look different then you have to bulking it up with a different look. Which will be hard. Look at this design and it will help you understand. The square basket on the inside. This thing can be modified to be a shroom cage with a lid

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I tried to design a frag basket for a friend. The idea was to fill it with gravel mostly for mushroom propagation. So I put smaller holes on the bottom and lower sides to help keep everything in and very low flow. It's about 4x8x2in.

I'm thinking about trying to round the edges and clean it up.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement please!

I like the design!

 

[officialreefbros]

I like the design!

Thanks!

Looks great. Even if you rounded the sides. It would not make a big difference because a square basket will always look like a basket. If you want it to look different then you have to bulking it up with a different look. Which will be hard. Look at this design and it will help you understand. The square basket on the inside. This thing can be modified to be a shroom cage with a lid

Oh wow that's neat! That's like a full fortress! What type of corals have you been using it for?


My thought with this was very simple to just fill it will like reborn and arm and then toss in shrooms and other softies to grab lol

 

[Jamie814]

Looks nice! but very expensive way to go when you can just use plant baskets that are a couple bucks and other than the color look very similar.

 

[officialreefbros]

Looks nice! but very expensive way to go when you can just use plant baskets that are a couple bucks and other than the color look very similar.

Not really. It used ~150g of filament to be the size I wanted and hole configuration so it's <$4

 

[Jamie814]

Not really. It used ~150g of filament to be the size I wanted and hole configuration so it's <$4

$4 isn't bad, looks like it would have been a lot more filament than that.

 

[mastersushi]

Thanks!


Oh wow that's neat! That's like a full fortress! What type of corals have you been using it for?


My thought with this was very simple to just fill it will like reborn and arm and then toss in shrooms and other softies to grab lol

Original 3d design was for amphipod. Then it turn to frag stand and nori tang feeder box. I like to design for multi purpose use. I even had figures on it

 

[officialreefbros]

Oh wow neat!!