Hi all,
I spent the last week wrestling with my frag tank, and decided it's time to tear it down. First I had stray current which shocked me pretty badly that I finally attributed to the heater. But the replacement heater I put in knocked the tank temperature up to nearly 90 and majorly stressed out the corals. Then it all happened again, more or less. I don't have as many frags as I used to due to former, even worse heating spikes, and I've decided it's for the best for my remaining stock to be brought up into my display tank where I know I'll at least get to see it every single day so nothing can go too wrong just because of being so busy with my baby daughter.
Regardless, here's the setup:
Main tank was a custom size - 30x18*13.5 - around 32 gallons, with a single hole drilled for drainage. I have 20 gallon sump included on the unit. Lighting is provided by three Haegan Glo Ballasts with Icecap reflectors. The display has four 36 inch bulbs, the sump two 24 inch bulbs. The pump is nothing special, but as you can see, I do have a lot of powerheads in there - basically I had 4 Koralias left over when upgraded my main tank to Vortechs, so I just stuck them all in. I'll also throw in the attached Red Sea skimmer, the ATO and associated powerhead, a couple power strips, and all tubing, live sand, and rubble in the system. You can have the peppermint shrimp and the astraea which live in the tank if you so desire.
I'm not including my frags (they need to recoup in my display for awhile anyway), any heater (I wouldn't trust giving one of my unused ones away now), or the rack it's on.
$400 OBO.
I spent the last week wrestling with my frag tank, and decided it's time to tear it down. First I had stray current which shocked me pretty badly that I finally attributed to the heater. But the replacement heater I put in knocked the tank temperature up to nearly 90 and majorly stressed out the corals. Then it all happened again, more or less. I don't have as many frags as I used to due to former, even worse heating spikes, and I've decided it's for the best for my remaining stock to be brought up into my display tank where I know I'll at least get to see it every single day so nothing can go too wrong just because of being so busy with my baby daughter.
Regardless, here's the setup:
Main tank was a custom size - 30x18*13.5 - around 32 gallons, with a single hole drilled for drainage. I have 20 gallon sump included on the unit. Lighting is provided by three Haegan Glo Ballasts with Icecap reflectors. The display has four 36 inch bulbs, the sump two 24 inch bulbs. The pump is nothing special, but as you can see, I do have a lot of powerheads in there - basically I had 4 Koralias left over when upgraded my main tank to Vortechs, so I just stuck them all in. I'll also throw in the attached Red Sea skimmer, the ATO and associated powerhead, a couple power strips, and all tubing, live sand, and rubble in the system. You can have the peppermint shrimp and the astraea which live in the tank if you so desire.
I'm not including my frags (they need to recoup in my display for awhile anyway), any heater (I wouldn't trust giving one of my unused ones away now), or the rack it's on.
$400 OBO.
