Rich's Frag Tank Build

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richiet

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Picked up a pretty nice 24"x24"x8" frag tank from Dave over at Aquapros during MACI. Ended up building my own stand and hanging fixture for BadGus' smaller LED set-up.

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I wasn't planning on running with a sump initially since I was mainly going to growing out my Palys and a few chalices. I have about 20lbs of well established live rock inside the tank for filtration plus I have a hang on the back aquaclear running chemipure.

Once I got the stand built and Gus' lights on this bad boy I decided I wanted the rock out of the main tank and into the sump for a cleaner look.

I built the stand a little higher than normal to make it both a look down tank as well as a quasi display tank. So far I'm 100% satisfied with that decision.


I'm going to try to update this thread with weekly updates of Chalice growth both for my own curiosity and to document how well Gus' lights work out.
So far I've had them over the tank for almost a month and I've seen very positive results.

I also want to show off some of my nicer chalices so hopefully this will be a pic intensive thread.
 
Figured I'd post a few pics to this thread to keep it alive.

Sold to me as Rainbow Monti, but I'm not so sure. Still very pretty and has huge polyps
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This is some sort of mummy eye, but has very interesting bits and pieces. Looks like it is going to have a white/baby blue rim with light blue spots through out. The eyes are more along the lines of a emerald mummy eye color.
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These are becoming one of my favorite palys. Bright yellow skirt with a deep purple center
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My frag of the Cornbred Rainbow Crush
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Joe Knows Reef's Shockfire
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Jason Fox's Jack-O-Lantern Lepto
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Very cool. Those two calices are VERY similar! :). Are you happy with the light for that application?

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Love these dimensions for a show frag tank. Love that monti. Montis are actually my favorite SPS, but they are terrible for growing in a tank because they encrust and take up so much real estate! Rich, I want a frag of it please :) Its a type of rainbow morph but it holds the orange centers which is cool, but I like that it has very puffy polyps more.
 
Oh so you are the one who bought. I saw it at his shop then asked about it at MACI and it was gone. Haha

Well done tank!
 
Rich. I know u have many more pics to post. Ur prob one of the few that will drop $ on ultras!!! Post them! Maybe if I get around to it this weekend. I'll post some of the ultra chalices I have... And post some things for website!! Lol work sucks, keeps me busy
 
Thats an awesome frag tank Rich!! I have to same light for my DP, how far off the water do you have yours and are your lights turned all the way up? Everything looks pretty good in my tank...just not quite as AWESOME as yours!
 
Here are a few more that I have growing out:

Tyree/WWC Grafted Monti Cap
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Picked this up from TwinSpotsGoby the other day.
Reeftech Starburt Monti w/ a hint of a green streak.
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Salted Agaves from Cornbred
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CARs
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Mastermind Chalice
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Jawbreaker Shroom
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WWC Sunrise
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SaltyScotty said:
Thats an awesome frag tank Rich!! I have to same light for my DP, how far off the water do you have yours and are your lights turned all the way up? Everything looks pretty good in my tank...just not quite as AWESOME as yours!
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I have the light sitting about 12 inches from the top of the water. I have mostly palys and chalices in the tank so I keep the light fairly low (40-50%) since there really isn't any depth to the tank for me to soften the light.
 
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