Acrylic Frag Rack

revhtree · Feb 19, 2009

Just wondered upon an old pic of my acrylic frag rack I drilled for a frag tank a couple years ago and thought I would share it. It worked really well. I drilled it by hand so it was far from perfect.

revhtree · Feb 19, 2009

revhtree · Feb 19, 2009

Frag in the rack..

jerryc · Feb 19, 2009

That wasn't bad Rev. I need to make one to hold some frags oof the sand the zos dont seam to like it

jc5205 · Feb 19, 2009

Nice Job Rev,

Mine is about the same in my frag tank, two level.

Spiderwoman · Feb 19, 2009

GrouperGenius is a true guru with acrylics and I have a frag rack built by him

AquaWorldPSC · Feb 19, 2009

We did the same thing but made it hang down into the tank. Only thing is that bubble get trapped under it and diatom grow on it. But is really nice when fully covered in coralline.

vetteman · Feb 19, 2009

Egg crate to the rescue...... really I love the stuff, a couple tie wraps and you can build anything

jmuzzey · Feb 19, 2009

They make an acrylic eggcrate also. I made an acrylic frag rack almost identical to yours a while back, and had problems with air bubbles getting trapped as well. This picture is from last year I think.

JuniorMC8704 · Feb 19, 2009

yep, did the same here too...spent a a fortune on acrylic making a really slick one, and diatom problems caused me to remove it.

Black egg crate, soaked in vinegar for a month, and then good to go.

Ive had much better results when ive soaked the eggcrate first.

vetteman · Feb 19, 2009

What doe's the vinegar soak do? I just use the crate as is.... it grows coraline real well

Burks · Feb 22, 2009

vetteman said:
What doe's the vinegar soak do? I just use the crate as is.... it grows coraline real well

I'm guessing it removes whatever leaches from egg crate that causes algae to grow on it.

I reused an old piece of egg crate from my old frag vat, zero algae growth on it this time. The newer pieces are getting algae all over them.