whats you method of a frag tank?

chadfarmer · Sep 17, 2011

i use egg crate and plugs

led lighting
heavy flow

mostly sps but some lps and zoas

JMSKI333 · Sep 18, 2011

what lighting do you use? DIY? do you have heavy turnover or heavy Powerhead flow?

orthokardia · Sep 18, 2011

egg crate and plugs with 4xT5 over 48x12x12. moderate flow and mostly SPS with the few LPS/softies on the glass bottom

chadfarmer · Sep 19, 2011

JMSKI333 said:
what lighting do you use? DIY? do you have heavy turnover or heavy Powerhead flow?

48 led 24 white and 24 blue

heavy power head flow

caudill187 · Sep 22, 2011

30 long plumbed into my main tank with a Mag 2. 2 maxijets and a koralia for flow (I drowned my Mp10). Lighting is 2/3 T5 with LED fixture by nano-box over one end for the SPS. Magnetic Acrylic frag racks for flexibility. Sailfin tang to eat algae and to watch over my frags

swannyson7 · Sep 22, 2011

I'm currently running two frag tanks. For the larger of the two, I'm using an independently plumbed 40B lit by an 8 bulb T5 setup running a mixture of Blue+, Aquablue Special, and Purple+ bulbs. For filtration I'm using an old AquaC Remora Pro and running a TLF 150 with GFO. I dose 2 part manually, but also have a Kalk reactor that runs a few times throughout the day for 10 minute periods. Flow is provided by a koralia 4, a MJ1200 with sureflow mod, a Koralia Nano 425 and a Seio 820. I hate the look of BB tanks, so I have some sand in there (strictly for aesthetics) and a few large pieces of live rock for biological filtration. Frag racks are a mixture of acrylic DIY racks, a few magnetic acrylic racks hung on the sides of the tank and a couple pieces of egg crate. The CUC consists of scarlet reef hermits, blue leg hermits, astrea snails, nasarius snails, and mexican turbos. The only other livestock is a B&W Oscellaris and a purple pseudochromis... both of which were exiled from my DT.

The smaller tank is a 16x16x8 acrylic tank plumbed into my DT fed by a mag 5 and lit by a Cree DIY setup consisting of 12 royals blues and 6 cool white diodes. Additional flow is provided by a MJ900 and the frag rack is made of egg crate. This tank is BB due to the large amount of flow, and there is nothing for livestock except fox a mixture of a few snails.

Snprhed · Oct 10, 2011

I have a 96"X24"X10" grow tank with eggcrate. Flow is from a dart pump that goes to a manifold and splits it into 3 inputs. Two of the split lines go to eductors and one goes to a large sea swirl. Lighting is two 250w halides and one 400w. I also skimm heavily, 225 gallons of total volume with an etss 1500 skimmer, capable of tanks up to 1500 gallons.

Chad what has been your experience with the LED's and the SPS?

Murfman · Oct 10, 2011

22x22 tank that is about 8" deep. It is plumbed in to my main tank but can be isolated to become a QT, if needed. I mount the frags to rubble or concrete frag plugs and place them on the bottom. I was using black egg crate with a nice acrylic stand, but way too much bubble algae was attaching in the corners of the egg crate. I keep a mix of SPS and LPS and use a few snails and hermits to try and keep things clean.

larryl · Dec 6, 2011

I have a 25x25x12 tied into my main with a mp20 and a water blaster hy-3000 for flow. Its lit up by a evolution 120watt 20k. Frag racks from the blue glow!

chadfarmer · Dec 20, 2011

Snprhed said:
I have a 96"X24"X10" grow tank with eggcrate. Flow is from a dart pump that goes to a manifold and splits it into 3 inputs. Two of the split lines go to eductors and one goes to a large sea swirl. Lighting is two 250w halides and one 400w. I also skimm heavily, 225 gallons of total volume with an etss 1500 skimmer, capable of tanks up to 1500 gallons.

Chad what has been your experience with the LED's and the SPS?

my whole system is run off leds works for me