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40 breeder frag tank upgrade

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So my 20 gallon long frag tank has filled up and with the possible upcoming move I’m going to be fragging up a good majority of my reef to prepare for the eventual move. My goal is to hopefully get most of my corals into some form of a DBTC where I’ll pay for shipping to my new location whenever the coral grows out enough to frag as I think a lot of them may be hard to obtain again at an affordable cost.
Currently an aqueon 20 gallon long
Reef octopus HOB 1000
Aqua clear 70 with ocean box designs overflow box
2x jbj unibody leds
Smart micro ato
Santa Monica HOG 2
Jebao pp4

The equipment list is oversized for what it is so a straight transfer into the 40 breeder is the current plan with no additional cost besides the tank which is currently on sale at Petco.
 

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Picked up the tank for 40$ today with an extra 10$ off coupon
 

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All cleaned up and it’s time to go to work and swap it in.
 

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Waiting on my second batch of water then it’s time to transfer.
 

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Getting there
 

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The task is complete. 5 hours and a couple beers later and everything seems to be doing good. Next step is to make a much better frag rack setup out of eggcrate.
 

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