Fragging setup-would this work???

fish_geek*

fish_geek*

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What are the dimansions of those containers... i swear i saw the same container at walmart today but didn't get it becuase i thought it would be too shallow... how strong are your pc's( in watts i mean aand how many) over that system and so do you think that a sump or refugium would be good for this system becuase i wanted to try to make my own for long but never had a reason to build one...
Thank you very much, your post is very helpful
David
 
fish_geek*

fish_geek*

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How about 35watt,75watt,150 watt or 175watt mh??? (250watt also but i think that will be wayyyyyy to much heat)
Thanks,
David
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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To secure the eggcrate I cut some 3/4" PVC pipe about 2" long, drilled a hole thru each one and then used a small zip tie to secure it to the eggcrate and then simply set it in the tank. I used broken up LR to frag everything, then I switched over to using cool looking shells and even chunks of dead SPS coral. The lighting was a 96w PC and I don't care what anyone says, for softies this was an incredible frag tank, every zoo frag grew like crazy, cloves and green star loved it. I ended up selling most of the frags and I think I ended up pocketing around $1200. The goal was to sell off enough to pay for my 72" HQI lights for the new tank. I have a new frag tank that I'll start working on in another month or so. It was my very first reef tank, a 75g plexi show tank that measured 36"t x 36w x 12d. (payed $50 for it) I'm going to use a piee of acrylic and seal up the top of the tank and then lay it on its side and cut the front off the tank but leave a band about 1" wide which will give me some bracing. then I'll have a 36" square thank thats 12" deep. From the front part of the tank that I'm going to cut out, I'll make an internal overflow. Don't be afraid to kinda "do whatever" Aqain, as long as you have lighting, water flow and water quality you can use anything to make a frag tank, amazing how many people in this hobby have to have elaborate and ultra high tech equipment simply because they think it's needed. I have an incredible 125 that is loaded with SPS, LPS Softies, Clams, Leathers and everything is multiplying and growing at an incredible rate (I've actually run out of tank space) and all that I have is a protein skimmers and a sump with a clump of chaeto in it.
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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I'm also setting up a SPS frag tank using the light from the 75g show tank mentioned above, but I'm using a 45g standard tank. The light is a 250mh and 2x96 actinic. Right now I'm curing 150lb of LR in the tank as I'm dosing pretty heavy with purple up and running the lights 18h day to create some massive coraline algae growth. Once the LR is encrusted I'll remove the LR to another SPS display tank that I just setup. I've got an eggcrate that will be mounted about 10" from the surface and then I'll move all my SPS frags to this tank for grow out. I also purchased a 1/2hp chiller because I know this light will fry the tank in a short time. My point is that I'm setting up a SPS frag tank with nothing more than a aquaclear HOB to run carbon, a needle wheel skimmer, there is a sump under the tank with a 2x9w 6500k light that I'll run my "chunk of chaeto" fuge with. Simple design, using parts laying around my house or scavaged parts from other tanks.
 
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