Extra Egg grate..What to do with it

bassplaya12 · 06/25/2010, 01:36 PM

Finished building a couple lids for my nano aquarium and my uncles tank....got some extra egg grate. Anything cool I can do with it?

der_wille_zur_macht · 06/25/2010, 01:39 PM

-Frag rack
-Probe holder
-Skimmer stand
-insta-sump divider to create a 'fuge
-crate some eggs

bassplaya12 · 06/25/2010, 01:51 PM

I only have a ten gallon tank right now. Insta-sump divider to create a fuge? Would this work ok to turn my AC50 into a fuge like Sugar magnolia and many others have done? Would it keep chaeto in my filter back? What's a probe holder? And I was thinking a frag rack, I just don't know if I like how they look

Indymann99 · 06/25/2010, 03:01 PM

Patent Pending

bassplaya12 · 06/27/2010, 03:35 PM

That's a probe holder? hah

uncleof6 · 06/27/2010, 06:45 PM

Throw it in the trash....

J

bassplaya12 · 06/27/2010, 07:13 PM

^^ I like to be more creative than that

kingfisher62 · 07/13/2010, 05:52 PM

They make good frag stands!

bassplaya12 · 07/14/2010, 08:10 AM

^^ I see lots of people doing that but in a ten gallon tank do I need to put new frags on a stand or rack?

der_wille_zur_macht · 07/14/2010, 08:59 AM

The advantage to having a "frag rack" is that the eggcrate provides a place to stick the knob on the bottom of most frag plugs, to keep the frag from tipping over. Whether or not you need a rack is really something we can't decide for you, of course.

Sugar Magnolia · 07/14/2010, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bassplaya12

Would it keep chaeto in my filter back?

Nope. When the chaeto grows, it'll just grow right through the eggcrate.

bassplaya12 · 07/17/2010, 10:32 AM

^^ good to know

06/25/2010, 01:36 PM	#1
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	Extra Egg grate..What to do with it Finished building a couple lids for my nano aquarium and my uncles tank....got some extra egg grate. Anything cool I can do with it?

06/25/2010, 01:39 PM	#2
der_wille_zur_macht Team RC Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NY Posts: 17,749	-Frag rack -Probe holder -Skimmer stand -insta-sump divider to create a 'fuge -crate some eggs __________________ Inconveniencing marine life since 1992 "It is my personal belief that reef aquaria should be thriving communities of biodiversity, representative of their wild counterparts, and not merely collections of pretty specimens growing on tidy clean rock shelves covered in purple coralline algae." (Eric Borneman)

06/25/2010, 03:01 PM	#4
Indymann99 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,447	Patent Pending __________________ 120g DT 100lbs LR / 200 lbs LS, 45g fuge, VectraM1 Return, Herbie drain, 4x RW-8, 2x AI Hydra 26 w AWM, ASM G2, Apex controller, Apex BoB w floats ATO

06/27/2010, 06:45 PM	#6
uncleof6 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: AWOL Posts: 12,013	Throw it in the trash.... J __________________ "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." (oft attributed to Einstein; most likely paraphrasing by Roger Sessions; compactly articulates the principle of Occam's Razor) Current Tank Info: 325 6' wide Reef

07/13/2010, 05:52 PM	#8
kingfisher62 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: massachusetts Posts: 4,972	They make good frag stands! __________________ 55g Tank - 216W T5's Foxface, tomato clown, yellow tailed damsel, Starrie Blennie, LPS and softies 29G Biocube- 120W LED's 2 percular clown, Six line Wrasse , LPS and softies Current Tank Info: 55 gl. Reef tank ,29g biocube Reef

06/25/2010, 01:51 PM	#3
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	I only have a ten gallon tank right now. Insta-sump divider to create a fuge? Would this work ok to turn my AC50 into a fuge like Sugar magnolia and many others have done? Would it keep chaeto in my filter back? What's a probe holder? And I was thinking a frag rack, I just don't know if I like how they look

06/27/2010, 03:35 PM	#5
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	That's a probe holder? hah

06/27/2010, 07:13 PM	#7
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	^^ I like to be more creative than that

07/14/2010, 08:10 AM	#9
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	^^ I see lots of people doing that but in a ten gallon tank do I need to put new frags on a stand or rack?

07/14/2010, 08:59 AM	#10
der_wille_zur_macht Team RC Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NY Posts: 17,749	The advantage to having a "frag rack" is that the eggcrate provides a place to stick the knob on the bottom of most frag plugs, to keep the frag from tipping over. Whether or not you need a rack is really something we can't decide for you, of course. __________________ Inconveniencing marine life since 1992 "It is my personal belief that reef aquaria should be thriving communities of biodiversity, representative of their wild counterparts, and not merely collections of pretty specimens growing on tidy clean rock shelves covered in purple coralline algae." (Eric Borneman)

07/17/2010, 10:32 AM	#12
bassplaya12 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Buffalo/Syracuse Posts: 685	^^ good to know

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