how to frag tank?

[toddmau5]

So i'm about to go frag crazy and i'm going to need a tank to let everything heal up, and a place for them to be happy until I can do something with them. I already have a 48gallon drilled tank I was planning on using, and tons of pumps and what not. I was wondering what the simplest and effective way would be without getting to crazy. Something that would give me decent growth and keep everything happy. Do I run a sump with live rock and just treat it like my DT? Run carbon media, run an actual mechanical filter? I would just plumb it in with the DT but thats not going to be possible once I switch over to the 265g.

 

[ChadRaay86]

Easiest and most effective thing to do is to plumb it into your display. You'll still have one tank to test and you'll increase your volume and thus stability. I'm headed that way eventually

 

[toddmau5]

Yeah I would love to be about to do that but in order for me to do that id be running plumbing across a room, which could get ugly unless I go under the floor

 

[Straight_Chaos]

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[Straight_Chaos]

Simple stand, simple tank, currently running solo. The tube is wires from light. I will be connecting the two in a few weeks. Frag tank will lose sump.

I'm using vinyl tubing for return and drain... we will see how that works...

I'm going for as simple and I can.

 

[toddmau5]

So I guess I'm just going to run a basic simple sump with live rock, a carbon reactor because I have one laying around I'm not using and see how it works out

 

[toddmau5]

Well, got it up and running. It's ghetto, but it was really only planned to be temporary, that whole room is getting reno'ed. Hey it works lol. I'm not really sure how I feel about the T5s tho, I feel like there is no color, maybe I'm way too used to LEDs. Should I stick with the T5s for grow out purposes and maybe add a blue led strip? Or switch lighting all together?

 

[Egkid]

What bulbs are you using? And how old? I'd try a different bulb setup before spending money on another setup. T5's have been growing corals long before LED's so they work, you just gotta find what bulb combo pleases your eye.

 

[toddmau5]

Running two actinic (blue) and two coral growth (purplish) the one purple looks a bit faded but the rest of the bulbs just came out of the box. It could very well just be my eyes are to used to that crazy color pop from leds