Frag Tank
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gflat65
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Youre better off without sand, IMO, since you might have to dose the tank. However, without some sort of biological help, they can be difficult to maintain parameters. If you can somehow plumb it into the main tank you'd be better off (unless you're planning on making this a QT tank, too-though mixing frags and newly arrived corals may not be the best thing to do either...). That gives just one water volume to have to control. If you have a reef ready, run a U out of the overflow for siphon to provide flow to the frag tank from the main tank. Then drain the frag back to the sump of the display tank. If not running a sump, this isn't as easy, though. I hooked a MJ1200 up to the supply water to the frag tank. I slide it down into the overflow with the output from the ph feeding the siphon outside the tank from a Tee in the top of the U to help restart a siphon with power outages. I thought of using a solenoid to close the siphon line with a power outage, but this seemed easier. I have a DIY stockman draining it. I built it out of a myriad of spare plumbing parts (unions to extend height since I didn't have any 1" pipe-frankenstein
). Seems to work fine, though.
I have a separate QT tank that I run some LR in for biological. I try to keep treatments down to baths rather than tank treatments to prevent causing a massive biological die off. The LR helps keep the water a little more stable with die off form incoming corals. I had a hard time maintaining it without some sort of biological help...
). Seems to work fine, though.I have a separate QT tank that I run some LR in for biological. I try to keep treatments down to baths rather than tank treatments to prevent causing a massive biological die off. The LR helps keep the water a little more stable with die off form incoming corals. I had a hard time maintaining it without some sort of biological help...
