A frag tray
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Tomoko Schum
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Hi Allen,
Ah, you have been digging into my old gallery pictures.
I don't mind you posting my old pictures. I have a lot of old pictures on my computer at home and I get surprised from time to time to see how much these corals grew.
I started this tank on December 31st, 2004. It matured really well in the past 2 years.
I am sure your corals will grow really big in a year, too. SPS's in particular are really fast growers.
For example, all my good size colonies of acropora, like the colony in the Rose milli picture you see in the 1st page of my gallery, started out as a mere 2 inch stem only one year ago. The picture was taken after I fragged off a big branch that was threatening to take out the delicate yellow acro next to it. The yellow acro was only a size of a quarter when I bought it last autumn from Philip.
Some LPS's grow fast, too. I don't know if you can see the small green frogspawn at the bottom left side of the 1st picture above. It is next to the clam on the left corner in the 2nd picture with 1/4 of its body hiding behind the clam.
Rollin,
You can call on me any time. Your Blueberry acro frag grew into a really nice colony now!
Tomoko
Ah, you have been digging into my old gallery pictures.
I don't mind you posting my old pictures. I have a lot of old pictures on my computer at home and I get surprised from time to time to see how much these corals grew.
I started this tank on December 31st, 2004. It matured really well in the past 2 years.
I am sure your corals will grow really big in a year, too. SPS's in particular are really fast growers.
For example, all my good size colonies of acropora, like the colony in the Rose milli picture you see in the 1st page of my gallery, started out as a mere 2 inch stem only one year ago. The picture was taken after I fragged off a big branch that was threatening to take out the delicate yellow acro next to it. The yellow acro was only a size of a quarter when I bought it last autumn from Philip.
Some LPS's grow fast, too. I don't know if you can see the small green frogspawn at the bottom left side of the 1st picture above. It is next to the clam on the left corner in the 2nd picture with 1/4 of its body hiding behind the clam.
Rollin,
You can call on me any time. Your Blueberry acro frag grew into a really nice colony now!
Tomoko
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Speaking of frag trays, check out the suction cup soap dishes at Target. I got 2 corner trays for about $6 each. Each one has four 3 inch suction cups and will hold 10 - 15 frags. Since there's nothing to go over the rim of the tank, you can move them to anywhere in the tank, put one over another, etc.
Tomoko Schum
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I saw a huge one at Target yesterday, too. The tray was about 12 inches long and two inches deep. Clear and very pretty. You need to drill some holes on the side for water flow, though.
Another nifty frag tray that I saw recently was built of two small egg crate sheets and large clear suction cups from Wal Mart. The sheets of egg crate were held together with electrical ties. Two nylon strings were used to hold the two sheets perpendicular to each other instead of one dangling down from another. The round ends of the suction cups were pushed through the upper egg crate opening to hold the tray on the glass wall. You can make the sheet as long as you want this way.
I like using Plexiglas straps to hang the tray on the tank because it's easy to move the tray around the tank this way and I don't hit the tray accidentally and dislodge or move the suction cups downward. I spilled my frags this way a few times before I made the straps for the tray.
Someone wrote a DIY article for the Reefkeeping magazine about making this type straps not too long ago. It was about making a holder for a powerhead, but it also had a how-to section for frag trays.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-12/diy/index.php
He used 2 inch wide faux wood blind slats and a hair dryer to bend it.
Tomoko
Another nifty frag tray that I saw recently was built of two small egg crate sheets and large clear suction cups from Wal Mart. The sheets of egg crate were held together with electrical ties. Two nylon strings were used to hold the two sheets perpendicular to each other instead of one dangling down from another. The round ends of the suction cups were pushed through the upper egg crate opening to hold the tray on the glass wall. You can make the sheet as long as you want this way.
I like using Plexiglas straps to hang the tray on the tank because it's easy to move the tray around the tank this way and I don't hit the tray accidentally and dislodge or move the suction cups downward. I spilled my frags this way a few times before I made the straps for the tray.
Someone wrote a DIY article for the Reefkeeping magazine about making this type straps not too long ago. It was about making a holder for a powerhead, but it also had a how-to section for frag trays.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-12/diy/index.php
He used 2 inch wide faux wood blind slats and a hair dryer to bend it.
Tomoko
