Show Off your prop System!

[ciaolong]

keeping thread alive

fighting a diatom bloom atm

 

[eastcoastzigzag]

ciaolong - wheres ur lighting? and put me down for some of those blues!

 

[ciaolong]

its up there 400w blv
my new system will be on my balcony so all natural sunlight

 

[I Found Nemo]

Ciaolong are those plastic golf tees you using as frag plugs?

 

[ciaolong]

yeah i use golf tees and left over rock media for frags
i started to use golf tees for sps as many of my customer rather sps on the golf tees than the rocks (dont ask me)

its very easy to make a rack of them too just get a arylic sheet and drill away

 

[panic]

genius! I am all over the golf tees. The bonus is that if they rtn, straight to the driving range for them. bye bye white sticks.

 

[ciaolong]

yeah they very good plus if the person doesnt like the golf tee i just break it cause i just use superglue and the frag comes off easy and leaves any encrusted parts which grows into another frag
plus they very cheap costs me 2 bucks for 12 which comes around 16 cents but i can get cheaper if i can find those 50 packs but they were out of stock

 

[SpYdeR468]

I have been reading the forums for a couple years now and haven't really posted much. So I finally got around to getting some decent pictures of my prop tank and figured I would share with you guys and keep the thread alive. Very small compared to many of your setups, but it is only for growing out frags for trades and to quarantine new specimens.

10g prop tank
175w Blueline 14k
CSS 65 skimmer
phosban reactor w/ phosban
20g rubbermaid refugium
Hagen 802 return
Hagen 502 pulling water through the rack
Seio 620

Contents: Pair of Ocellaris clowns and many SPS frags

Enjoy!

 

[eastcoastzigzag]

SpYdeR468 - sick!!!!! im lovin the set up, very pimp

 

[raskal311]

two 48x24x8"
G4x skimmer
1 luminmax 400watt or two luminmax 250watt.
One seio M1100 and One Seio M820 on each side.
Mag 12 return.

 

[jer77]

I've had mine for a few months, and just the other day had to take out all of the sand in my tank. It sprung a leak in the bulkhead so all the water had to be drained, so I might as well of taken out the sand and made it into a BB frag tank. I made everything. The tank I put together with lexan and I built the stand for it. The sump is a 40 gallon breeder tank with baffles with a large refugium. I just set it up a few days ago.

tank 36X25X12
sump 40gal breeder with fuge
mag 9.5 return
maxijets
10000K hamilton MH bulb on an 250W ARO ballast, a 20000K MH on an icecap 250W ballast, and 2 VHO bulbs in a PFO hood
Aqua-c skimmer

 

[malkier22]

what do you do with all the extra corals, my tank is covered in zoas!!!

 

[danskim]

More pics!

 

[Goodwin9]

Here's mine without the corals. Just finished setting it up.

 

[kpk]

Tagging along. I am setting up a 20l prop and wanna keep watch...

 

[danskim]

I am also considering making a 20L prop tank.
kpk, are you planning on plumbing it into your main system or separate?

 

[kpk]

It will be seperate. If I had room to put it next to my tank (and my woman would let me) I would. Plus it will be at my dads house where I am living for the summer...

Kyle

Plump it into your tank. Would be easier to maintain IMO

 

[danskim]

Yeah, I'm probably going to end up plumbing it into my main display. The only problem is space and tidiness because this is in my bedroom.

I hope this doesn't annoy anyone, but is anyone using T5 lighting on their prop/frag tank? I remember going through most if not all these pages, and I can't recall one with T5 lighting.
If so, do you get good growth? What bulbs, how close, etc...
thanks!

 

[kpk]

Will it be for sps or just zoos etc?

I am running 2x65w pcs on mine, until I get back home after the summer. I know the lights won't be that great, but...

Kyle

 

[danskim]

Oh sorry, it'll be for SPS almost exclusively.
BTW, sorry for leading this thread off track! I'll start another...