SPS propagation

[Clownguy]

I am going to try and frag some of my colonies, but I don't have a grow out tank so I thought I would grow the frags out in the tank. I have seen some people make racks at the top of their tanks, only a couple of inches below the surface. Does this work and does anyone have pictures of this type of set up? Thanks

Chris

 

[bc_slc]

great question. I want to build something similar with eggcrate material.

Advice from someone who has done this would be appreciated.

Mat

 

[DonW]

I am going to try and frag some of my colonies, but I don't have a grow out tank so I thought I would grow the frags out in the tank. I have seen some people make racks at the top of their tanks, only a couple of inches below the surface. Does this work and does anyone have pictures of this type of set up? Thanks

Chris

I use magnets so there is no rack in the display. Also you can move them up and down for different light levels and ther is no shadow from the rack.

Don

 

[kevinpo]

If you hang the rack on the ends of the tank the frags will not receive too much light and remain the same color (if you are using metal halide bulbs). Most of us do not place corals at the very ends either so you would not likely be shading corals below. Egg crate works well but if you place the coral directly on it they will encrust to the plastic and may leave some portion behind when you remove it.

HTH,
Kevin

 

[Clownguy]

Hey Kevin, how deep should I place the rack? I can go to about 9" but it is on the side so it wont get direct light.

Chris

 

[SueT]

I have used eggcrate and made hangers to hang the eggcrate on over the sides of my tank. I cut the sheet of eggcrate to the size I needed and glued frags to the rock rubble and then placed them on the rack. They did great and it wasn't too bad an eyesore. Also makes for good viewing if someone is coming over to buy frags.

 

[Clownguy]

Well, I created my in the tank prop rack and it looks alright. I fraged a pretty good size colony of Pocillopora and piece of my blue stag, brown stag and a few smaller pieces of a yellow acro I got from Soutas(by looking at their site looks like A.chesterfieldenis, but he told me something else). We will se how they grow. The polyps on most of them have already started to open.

Chris

 

[kevinpo]

Chris,
Could you take a picture of the rack to share with us?

Regards,
Kevin

 

[bc_slc]

agreed, would love to see a pic of the rack.

Mat

 

[Clownguy]

I will try to take something resembling a picture when I get home tonight.

Chris

 

[Clownguy]

Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures I snapped tonight?


Chris

 

[kevinpo]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Kevin

 

[bc_slc]

what did you use to connect the base to the sides and how does it connect to the tank?

Mat

 

[Clownguy]

Hey Mat, the sides are connected with zip ties and it attaches to the tank with more frame work of egg crate.