Yes. I'll upload it to maker world. What size do you need? Width and height particularly. It's embedded in a giant fusion 360 file I have with all my aquarium thing. I can easily export a copy of various sizes, but distributing the raw original is more difficult.
Richie's 48x24x12 frag tank
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MarcosD
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I think originally size looks good. My tank is also 48x24”. Thank you!
Partial frag tank shot. I think this is the first time I've ever grown out numerous colonies at once; especially acro colonies.
Monti eating nudis seem to be under control. Not really sure what changed, besides the wrasses getting hungry because my avast feeder got a bit plugged up.
Some corals are semi bleached. I blame that on my media reactor having been offline for a bit, and a giant chalice (unpictured) causing chemical and stinger attacks.
I've also somehow developed aptasia. I think I might've had it for awhile and my peppermint shrimp might've died off (it's always hidden in the giant Monti) allowing them to proliferate a bit. I just went through a F aptasia round and will give that another try at some point. Given it's a frag tank I could also start pulling things out and giving them a peroxide scrub, but not doing so yet.
Monti eating nudis seem to be under control. Not really sure what changed, besides the wrasses getting hungry because my avast feeder got a bit plugged up.
Some corals are semi bleached. I blame that on my media reactor having been offline for a bit, and a giant chalice (unpictured) causing chemical and stinger attacks.
I've also somehow developed aptasia. I think I might've had it for awhile and my peppermint shrimp might've died off (it's always hidden in the giant Monti) allowing them to proliferate a bit. I just went through a F aptasia round and will give that another try at some point. Given it's a frag tank I could also start pulling things out and giving them a peroxide scrub, but not doing so yet.
That’s neat! Have a link to the print files? I have a 29g, if I can print up a kit and glue it up I can donate that with an HOB overflow to they guy who posted about the classroom tank!
Looks great, nice job!
let me track em down. They're all sized for a 40gallon breeder though. Certainly could be resized/scaled.
Has worked for me so far with no issues. The plastic does bow, but so far has held up well.
Do you use fusion 360 or anything like that? I could try and export the original.
Thank you! Any format will work, I can convert as needed! As for sizing differences I’m sure I can figure that out
Here's a fusion 360 and a step file version. I didn't test those exports, but those are the pieces I used. There's a baffle in there by the drain, but I didn't actually use that. I glued them together with epoxy, then siliconed them in place.
Make sure to do a water safety test to ensure your return section block is water tight to ensure only the amount of water that you want can go out of the return. I did that by rubbing additional silicone on it. However next time I'd of tried to just do it with more layers of PET-G.
Honestly though, it's an interesting project, but burns through a lot of PET-G. I debated multiple times to just buy a kit.
Easier to just buy a kit it seems but I’ll give it a try, will need a lot of tweaking to make it fit properly… hmm
Definitely easier to buy a kit. I stayed this route because I wanted it setup a particular way, otherwise I'd of probably bought one of those eat overpriced kits.
I have a CNC now which I think is more appropriate, but I can only cut small things...
Colonies and acros are really growing out now. Visibly bigger every week.
My tanks are almost completely on auto pilot now. Due to work+personal travel I'm consistently leaving the tank for a week or so, and beforehand topping off containers and food and don't do anything otherwise. Two weeks back, before a trip, I did a big attempt at attacking the aptasia breakout that's starting, and generally cleaned things up again. Got rid of a bunch, and did another MEN clean out.
I think at this point my solution to aptasia would have to be berghia nudis, which almost certainly would get demolished by my wrasses. If anyone has had success with that combo lmk. I could section of a piece of the tank for the wrasses, or catch them and put them temporarily in a holding tank, but I don't want to do that.
This is really my first time with major acro success, and I know at some point I'll have a crash again, but in a good and happy place now.
All those colonies were grown from single sticks.
Also my goniopora is very very happy. I'm in a weird place with it though, because it's overgrown the egg crate the plug was on. It's now a goniopora ball, covering the top and bottom of the plug and egg crate. I'm wondering if I could hang it that way higher in a display and have a floating goni ball, and if that would be cool or weird.
Final shot, nearly FTS, but from the far end away from acros. In retrospect I have no idea what I'm going to do with this giant chalice. Bought it large; it's gotten larger. Takes up a ton of space and I don't think I can fit it in my display unless I make part of the display all about it. If anyone wants it, please make an offer.
My tanks are almost completely on auto pilot now. Due to work+personal travel I'm consistently leaving the tank for a week or so, and beforehand topping off containers and food and don't do anything otherwise. Two weeks back, before a trip, I did a big attempt at attacking the aptasia breakout that's starting, and generally cleaned things up again. Got rid of a bunch, and did another MEN clean out.
I think at this point my solution to aptasia would have to be berghia nudis, which almost certainly would get demolished by my wrasses. If anyone has had success with that combo lmk. I could section of a piece of the tank for the wrasses, or catch them and put them temporarily in a holding tank, but I don't want to do that.
This is really my first time with major acro success, and I know at some point I'll have a crash again, but in a good and happy place now.
All those colonies were grown from single sticks.
Also my goniopora is very very happy. I'm in a weird place with it though, because it's overgrown the egg crate the plug was on. It's now a goniopora ball, covering the top and bottom of the plug and egg crate. I'm wondering if I could hang it that way higher in a display and have a floating goni ball, and if that would be cool or weird.
Final shot, nearly FTS, but from the far end away from acros. In retrospect I have no idea what I'm going to do with this giant chalice. Bought it large; it's gotten larger. Takes up a ton of space and I don't think I can fit it in my display unless I make part of the display all about it. If anyone wants it, please make an offer.
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Don't recommend Berghia with wrasses either, the yellow one and pink streak I had wiped them out.
Tank looks amazing despite the pests!
Coral reefer
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Put that chalice into swap/dbtc/donate or sell for a fragging workshop
A couple quick shots from today. Still having really good (for me) growth on my SPS. I'm trying to get all these acros to fully on colony status and then I'll start fragging and then move frags to my display.
My montis are also growing like crazy and very little signs of nudis. I'm confident they are still in here, but the wrasses are keeping them in check and the corals are outgrowing any issues.
I am however in the midst of a battle with aiptasia. I put berghia's in my sump to clear that out which was effective. However I can't find them now to put them in my display, and also I'm pretty confident my wrasses would just instantly eat them. I've tried peppermints and have recently had little success, though it's also possible my wrasses ate them.
I just picked up a very very small Molly Miller Blenny from High Tide. He's currently living in a breeder box with coral skeletons in it until he gets big enough that I'm confident he can make it with the other fish in there.
I also am going to jump ahead and get an aiptasia eating filefish. That might be overkill, but the LPS I have in this frag tank I don't care that much about, and I'm really really sick of Aiptasia. We shall see.
Side view with the pumps turned off:
My montis are also growing like crazy and very little signs of nudis. I'm confident they are still in here, but the wrasses are keeping them in check and the corals are outgrowing any issues.
I am however in the midst of a battle with aiptasia. I put berghia's in my sump to clear that out which was effective. However I can't find them now to put them in my display, and also I'm pretty confident my wrasses would just instantly eat them. I've tried peppermints and have recently had little success, though it's also possible my wrasses ate them.
I just picked up a very very small Molly Miller Blenny from High Tide. He's currently living in a breeder box with coral skeletons in it until he gets big enough that I'm confident he can make it with the other fish in there.
I also am going to jump ahead and get an aiptasia eating filefish. That might be overkill, but the LPS I have in this frag tank I don't care that much about, and I'm really really sick of Aiptasia. We shall see.
Side view with the pumps turned off:
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Random question: how does anyone avoid a birds nest coral not being infested with bubble algae? I don't know if I just have really bad luck, or somehow I keep starting out in a bad state, but every single birds nest I have ends up getting bubble algae in it's center and then over time becomes a bubble algae blob with some coral sticking out.
I have no bubble algae otherwise, b/c the herbivores eat it all (I love foxfaces). They can't get into the core of a nest though. If I try and manually remove it, I always end up just breaking the coral apart.
I also don't have much success getting them to have color. Feels like they only have a nice green if they're shaded.
I have no bubble algae otherwise, b/c the herbivores eat it all (I love foxfaces). They can't get into the core of a nest though. If I try and manually remove it, I always end up just breaking the coral apart.
I also don't have much success getting them to have color. Feels like they only have a nice green if they're shaded.
DaddyHook
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Pitho or Emerald crabs probably better luck with emeralds my pitho don’t seem to make it up the rock work to high.
Is the birds nest getting enough flow? I would think bubble algae would only be able to attach to dead skeleton and not coral flesh. If detritus settles in the inner parts of the colony it could cause tissue to die and bubble algae to grow on it. My pink birdsnest requires very strong lighting or else becomes a darker shade or green.
Aiptasia eating filefish has been a lifesaver for my frag tank that gets overrun with aiptasia without him. Peppermint kept dying and berghia would starve out before the next infestation. Seems to leave zoas and euphyllia alone but I suspect he nips at acans and scolys.
Aiptasia eating filefish has been a lifesaver for my frag tank that gets overrun with aiptasia without him. Peppermint kept dying and berghia would starve out before the next infestation. Seems to leave zoas and euphyllia alone but I suspect he nips at acans and scolys.
I bought a cbb from @Kensington Reefer. Two days later no more aptaisa. He also is eating pellets!!!
I actually have zero bubble algae outside of what gets into birds nest.
The general situation will be it gets a bit on the base, or onto a piece of dead skeleton and then starts growing and I have to fight to get it off. It's in heavy flow.
Maybe there I answered my own question, just break off whatever I can get that's completely fresh and reset and throw the rest out.
I almost bought one that other day, but I'm afraid of the overhead of keeping it alive. The frag tank does have a 8 times a day run of a avast feeder which hopefully would help, but felt bothersome.
Maybe though instead of the filefish I could try one. They are cool.