jgranata13
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I've been wanting to get my feet wet with corals for some time now, so when I found out that my aquarium club was having their annual fragging workshop ($20 and you get to keep whatever you frag), I decided to give it a try. Though I do have a plan for a reef tank, it's out of my budget right now, and my FOWLR doesn't have the lighting or filtration for coral. With that said, here's the simple frag tank I've come up:
I tried to be as smart as possible about this, so I stayed away from all the flashy corals and just fragged a bunch of acans. They're the least demanding of what they had for us to frag, and I figured it would be easier to manage the tank if all the frags have the same requirements.
I currently have them sitting in a standard 5.5 gallon tank with a small pump for circulation and a small aquaclear with activated carbon. For lighting, I'm going to try a CFL bulb in a desk lamp. I've done a bunch of reading about using daylight CFL's online and it seems like it works for corals with low light demands, provided you can get enough light onto the coral. My desk lamp is a funnel shape, so basically all the light is directed straight down in a pretty concentrated disc. I was thinking of using a 100W-equivalent.
I'm not planning on keeping any fish so that the water quality stays as high as possible, but I was thinking of using water from water changes on my main tank (usually around 4-8ppm NO3 and 0.08-0.16 PO4) so that it's not ULN. Water changes on the frag tank will be the main method of nutrient export. If the PO4 of my MT water is too high, I can filter it with some seachem phosguard before adding it to the frag tank.
Does this sound like it has a chance at success?
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I tried to be as smart as possible about this, so I stayed away from all the flashy corals and just fragged a bunch of acans. They're the least demanding of what they had for us to frag, and I figured it would be easier to manage the tank if all the frags have the same requirements.
I currently have them sitting in a standard 5.5 gallon tank with a small pump for circulation and a small aquaclear with activated carbon. For lighting, I'm going to try a CFL bulb in a desk lamp. I've done a bunch of reading about using daylight CFL's online and it seems like it works for corals with low light demands, provided you can get enough light onto the coral. My desk lamp is a funnel shape, so basically all the light is directed straight down in a pretty concentrated disc. I was thinking of using a 100W-equivalent.
I'm not planning on keeping any fish so that the water quality stays as high as possible, but I was thinking of using water from water changes on my main tank (usually around 4-8ppm NO3 and 0.08-0.16 PO4) so that it's not ULN. Water changes on the frag tank will be the main method of nutrient export. If the PO4 of my MT water is too high, I can filter it with some seachem phosguard before adding it to the frag tank.
Does this sound like it has a chance at success?
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