What would you do???!?!?!?!

oceanparadise1 · Aug 23, 2009

I got to thinking today, what if i did something different with my prop tank. Every prop tank you see is basically just some egg crate frag holders!

Would you do the egg crate or kinda turn it into a reef? As in do a rock stack that has lots of room for corals, and then add some sand?

does this make the tank less efficent?

confused and looking for some others thought on this!

revhtree · Aug 23, 2009

Well the purpose of the egg crate/racks is to be able to access the corals easily for fragging or selling. If you get coral growing all over live rock thats attached to a bunch of other rock and then more coral, your going to have a tough time.

Reef Pets · Aug 23, 2009

I would go with the typical frag tank. With rock, the tank will not get even flow. I feel that the even flow and no dead spots help the frags grow.

Adding rock and sand would make it a reef tank, not a frag tank. All it comes down to is what your plans are for the tank.

gooch · Aug 23, 2009

All depends on how many corals you want to put in there. One thing you could do is go with something like this. This was my old frag tank. I hate the look of egg crate.

Same tank with egg crate.

Egg crate will get you the most capacity. Probably not even close.

droblack · Aug 23, 2009

My frag tank is another tank with liverock, frags, and is barebottom. Liverock adds to the filtration. I do have a magnetic fragrack and will be adding another, but really like the natural look over just eggcrate and coral discs. This works well for me because it is a fairly deep tank and I did not want to do levels of eggcrate. If I cannot place a coral in a secure enough spot, just throw a little superglue gel on it and everything is fine. Pop em off easily when they need to come out.

oceanparadise1 · Aug 24, 2009

revhtree said:
Well the purpose of the egg crate/racks is to be able to access the corals easily for fragging or selling. If you get coral growing all over live rock thats attached to a bunch of other rock and then more coral, your going to have a tough time.

THanks brotha

reefpets said:
I would go with the typical frag tank. With rock, the tank will not get even flow. I feel that the even flow and no dead spots help the frags grow.

Adding rock and sand would make it a reef tank, not a frag tank. All it comes down to is what your plans are for the tank.

VERY true and great advice thanks bud

droblack said:
My frag tank is another tank with liverock, frags, and is barebottom. Liverock adds to the filtration. I do have a magnetic fragrack and will be adding another, but really like the natural look over just eggcrate and coral discs. This works well for me because it is a fairly deep tank and I did not want to do levels of eggcrate. If I cannot place a coral in a secure enough spot, just throw a little superglue gel on it and everything is fine. Pop em off easily when they need to come out.

hmmm thats true

I guess i asked this bc i SUCK and when i say suck i mean TOTALLY suck at making racks! lol:smile:

gilmour01 · Aug 24, 2009

sometimes keeping it simple is the best way

oceanparadise1 · Aug 24, 2009

gilmour01 said:
sometimes keeping it simple is the best way

Very well put

now can u change your avatar before i have nightmares :wink::tongue:

amore169 · Aug 24, 2009

I would do bare bottom with some black eggcrate no live rock.

oceanparadise1 · Aug 24, 2009

Okay so im just gonna do the egg crate and bare borrom, iwas always gonna keep it bb bc it is just a frag tank

H@rry · Aug 24, 2009

For me a frag tank is a place to warehouse frags to heal and color up. I can squeeze more frags on the egg crate than I could on rocks and they don't fall down. For me it's a simple real estate issue. I don't want to turn my frag tank into another display tank.

macawmagic · Aug 24, 2009

plus eggcrate helps with the organization. my frag tank has live rock and sand, but under the eggcrate. I threw it in there because they're mainly big flat pieces that were dry but this way I'm curing them for my big tank which i hope to start setting up in the next couple months. So far its working out perfect as I don't have that much flow in there since it's only zoanthids. hope that helps.

oceanparadise1 · Aug 24, 2009

Thanks guys! this has all helped, im going to stick to egg crate, Harry is right i dont want another display tank just a place to heal and colorup corals! thanks again!