120gal mixed predatory reef tank

[parkinsn]

Thats a bad @$$ tank you have there. Very nice!

[banditpowdercoat]

AWESOME tank. Any chance of gettin a frag or 2 of them monti's? They are wicked. I'll be in PG Wed afternoon/evening. Doin some shopping before I head home.

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

AWESOME tank. Any chance of gettin a frag or 2 of them monti's? They are wicked. I'll be in PG Wed afternoon/evening. Doin some shopping before I head home.

Sure I'll give you my contact info in a PM. However all of the montipora colonies that I have are pretty small now so I cant do big frags like I used to... I sold all three and started them over because they were getting so big and I wanted to move some things around.

I do lots of fragging (by Prince George standards) so there might be some other stuff you'd be interested in too.

[PoonTang]

LOL. Frag on a rope. Thats cool, never seen that done before.

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

LOL. Frag on a rope. Thats cool, never seen that done before.

Anthony Calfo talks about it in his Book of Coral Propagation as well as in this article: Coral Culture in Suspension http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/20...ture/index.php

[BlueAbyss]

I've read about people doing this while collecting frags... and then they were shipped damp, without water. 100% success rate... but can the frag be grown out while suspended like that? I'm very curious now...

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/eb/index.php

[whatcaneyedo]

Originally Posted by BlueAbyss

I've read about people doing this while collecting frags... and then they were shipped damp, without water. 100% success rate... but can the frag be grown out while suspended like that? I'm very curious now...

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/eb/index.php

I've had really good results with most of the stuff I hang. Corals like seriatopora grow into twisted spiked balls which are pretty neat. I'll try to find some before and after shots to show the growth. I grow a lot of SPS in general on the lines and then most of my LPS sits on the bottom slightly shaded. lol Then the soft coral grow up the sides and back of the tank! By doing this I can really pack a lot of frags into a standard 50gal.

However I do have problems with algae growing on the fishing line or growing on sections of dead coral skeleton. I dont have any swimming herbivores in my frag tank so nothing can eat it off. I also find water flow to be a bit tricky, if I have too much everything blows around and smacks into each other. Currently there is 30x per hour in that tank and I dont know if I could do much more. Also as everything grows larger the coral starts to weigh down the acrylic rods and bow them in.