My new frag shelf.

[wrightme43]

Hi everybody. Here is my new frag shelf. It is nothing special and is a copy of others I have seen on here. I am just proud of it because I made it. LOL The coral is a wild acro that came in very brown, I got for very little money. When moved and turned the right ways I could see that it had dark almost pine green, and dark purple on the tips. I hear that sometimes they come in brown and then under good light and care will change back to a nicer color. I thought the risk on this one was worth the possible reward. I only acclimated it for 2 weeks (I know that is early) before I broke it into 8 pieces. Here are some photos. It seems to be doing very well. I wanted to start with one I could afford to lose. I would appreciate any advice I can get from the old hands that have done this for years. LOL. Steve

 

[CarlaW]

If that colors up for you, looks like a trade could be on the horizon.
Good job on the tray, I'm gonna have to look into doin something like that.

 

[Elmo18]

If my female maroon sees a tray like that in my tank, she'll knock em right off

Awesome job!

- Elmo

 

[MtnDewMan]

Not sure what you mean by raise my own frags? Most of my corals start as frags in my tank and then grow out. I guess I raise all of my coral

Do you mean raise as in raise to sell them?

 

[wrightme43]

I mean break corals of and glue them to rocks and see what happens. LOL I have seen your tank. Its stinkin awesome. I mean like to trade or sell, or just to move the coral around in your own tank. LOL Steve

 

[Katchupoy]

Steve,

How did you do it? materials? and some more pics to show the shelf?...

Its kinda front elevation and you cant see anything except the thick white line...

Nice corals though

 

[wrightme43]

All right glad too. I took one of those cool air pump shelves that hang on the outside of your tank (old used) and took the shelf part off, just keeping the two L brackets. I broke the hooks off because they would not fit over the lip of the tank on the inside, and used two of the three suction cup mounts for power heads tie straped to the brackets to hold it to the tank wall on the inside with the flat part of L bracket sitting on the top ledge of the tank. I tie straped some white egg crate to the bottom of the L brackets and that was it. I will take more photos when I build the next one as that is mark I and off course must be improved. LOL I will also try to take a photo down on top of it when I have the lights off for cleaning next week with the pumps off so you can see it. I am very tickled with it so far, really only because I made it. I am sure others have made better ones and would love to see them. HTH Steve

 

[Katchupoy]

Hmmm, that means I wont be able to re-create it.... well maybe I will just try to imitate it... using other materials.

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

How can I make one of those cool shelves?

 

[Mauisreef]

If my female maroon sees a tray like that in my tank, she'll knock em right off ;
- Elmo

My female Maroon is a B!T$# too. I've seen her move big chunks of live rock that I put in HER way. LOL! :lol:

Tray looks good Steve!

Maui

 

[Katchupoy]

Here is mine.... Dont laugh please!!!... I found this one from TARGET for under 7 bucks.... It is 15 inches in length and 2.5 inches in width... well it looks funny but its way better than my DIY frag shelf...

here you go...

hope you liked it...

 

[CurvBall]

Nice trays, everybody, I just set-up a frag tray myself last night. I used egg crate. Don't have any photos but will post some in the new year.

At the moment I have two monti cap frags and a acro sp. frag on the tray. The acro frag came from my LFS, a freebie.

Katchupoy - I really like your frag tray, nice and clean, very 'pro' looking.

Wonder when some company will start making frag trays for us hobbyists to buy... only time will tell.

 

[Katchupoy]

Yes, they use these for bathroom use where you put your shampoos and soaps etc,etc,etc.... when I found it.... I said to myself...hmmmmmm!!!! And yes, i bought for a reasonable price.... not bad I think... with 4 big suctions....

 

[CurvBall]

Cool, thanks for the tip, time to visit the bathroom shops in the new year after I've done nothing on the beach in Mozambique for three weeks.

 

[wrightme43]

Thats a good idea, I have found mine to be to small and in need of a lip. The big turbo snails get up there and rearange stuff and I have to come up with a better one. I know having the frags knocked off dosent help them to grow up. LOL. I will keep trying, maybe just do what Cesar did. LOL. I like it. Looks really professional. Good idea with the manufactured frag shelf. It could be profitable. Thanks you all. Steve

 

[DonW]

Are you guys seeing problems with moving them ups close to the lighting?

Don

 

[wrightme43]

None yet, I have found however that when a snail knocks a sps over into a ricordia that it kills the sps where they contact. I am going to make a seperate one for rics.
I have powderblue green mouth, purple with green mouth, orange, and pink rics that are splitting off for me. I have Compact flour lights 4x96watt so I dont think I can over do my light, I dont know about MH. The coral I moved is starting color up already. I can see the dark pine green building in strength and intensity. I hope it works and this just a experiment. LOL Steve

 

[opihi]

Hi Cesar,
does the wall of your tray inhibit flow? have you considered using pieces of egg crate on the floor of your tray to lift the corals so they get better flow around them?

also, i'd consider adding on some type of hanger, as suction cups tend to fail over time. at least IME.

jeff

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

Good Idea cesar! Now I dont have to worry about my kenya trees moving off the rock I put them on and they go onto the glass or on a big chunk of live rock :evil:

 

[SaltwaterTeen]

Jeff, you could just like drill some holes into it (It looks like plastic from the pics) and just get flow like that.