Geohawk's Frag tank

[GeoHawk]

My first go at a frag tank! :bigsmile:
Looking good so far I think, now I just need to cuts some frags.
Tank Info
23 gallon 24X18X12
HOB filter
Koralia
aqueon heater
Nova Extreem SLR 4 bulb 96 watt T5
-2 ATI Blue Plus
-1 Geissman Actinic Plus
-1 Geissman Aquablue plus

I dont plan on doing any feeding in this tank, except maybe some amino acids, since there is no fish poo. Should I add a few snails and hermits? If so what species?

Heres the pics enjoy, pretty empty except for my zoas.

 

[skinz78]

Looking good! Are those frags going in or going to be sold?

 

[KrazyKollector]

looks like a great start to a nice Kollection!!

 

[blaten]

Beautiful colonies.

 

[GeoHawk]

Looking good! Are those frags going in or going to be sold?

These are my zoa colonies I will make some frags of these probably next week and eventually return to colonies to my display. I may sell one of the eagle eyes colonies though.
By the way thanks for the suggestion on the lights last week they are great!!!:thumbup:

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[skinz78]

If you are interested I'd be interested in possibly doing some trading with ya? I don't have any of the zoa's you pictured. I just fragged up a bunch of stuff so let me know.

 

[GeoHawk]

Got my first SPS frags cut and placed in tank. I hope they keep there color and encrust the frags nicely.

 

[childress5tyler]

You stocked that quickly! Easily done with how big your Hawkins is haha

 

[GeoHawk]

Actually the frag tank was a disaster it crashed in April, partly from neglect and partly from a downed heater. I lost about 80% of the frags that were in there. Now I have all my current frags on racks in my display, very annoying to me. Made a bunch of Hawkins frags today though. I will post pics in my Hawkins growth thread.

I think I made several mistakes with the frag tank.
No controller. Would have alerted me to heater issue, and I would have hooked up dosing pumps to keep Ca/KH in check.
HOB Filter only with no live rock (Not sure how big of a difference this made, but even though I wasn't feeding there was a ton of algae.

I would like to get this tank going again, but I wont do it until I move again most likely. That way I can either connect it to my cube or set it up with a controller.

To those with successful frag tanks, any advice?

 

[childress5tyler]

Is there any way that you could connect it to your 60 cube? Just T off your return pump to the 10 gallon frag tank and buy a cheap, HOB overflow. That's be my suggestion; that way you're not changing the water chemistry between tanks. Your 60 seems to have great growth, why not just T it off if space allows it?

 

[GeoHawk]

I would love to do that, but my wife says that she will not have 2 tanks in our living room. I think we will be moving again in 8-10 months so when we move I am going to try to get the tank set up in a basement or separate room. How well to HOB overflows work? If I used one of those I could avoid drilling my frag tank?