Frag Growout Tank Before Main Tank

[dlux5life]

Hey guys! Been years since I had a tank. Looking to build a ~120 peninsula in wall as part of a kitchen reno happening in 12-18 months.

In the meantime, I was thinking of building a frag / grow out tank. My thought is I could buy and grow small sps frags into colonies in the mean time and use it as a quarantine tank for when the new tank is up and running. I ‘d likely plumb it into the main tank with the option to isolate it as needed.

Any downsides I am not thinking about here? There’s likely some additional cost associated to this approach, but thinking it may make sense in the long run.

 

[afboundguy]

If it's plumbed into the main system you might be able to realistically use it as a QT tank. In theory you could isolate it with valves if you only want to use it for a coral QT tank but even then I wouldn't risk it. A QT tank for fish with medicating would make it not work as well.

I think a lot of people use plumbed in tanks into their system and having a dedicated frag/grow-out tank is a great idea and I plan to add one to my dream tank setup. I already have two extra tanks plumbed into my setup now with no issues.

 

[kgstei]

Personally I would keep my quarantine tank separate from my display tank.

 

[MarkSzy]

You should also take into the account of cycling the new display before opening the valves to the QT take. I made the mistake of adding a 30 gallon frag tank to my 250 gallon system and had a to fight both tanks cycling again.

 

[dlux5life]

Interesting things to think through. Thanks for the input! Seems like it could easily be plumbed in as a frag / grow out tank, but maybe not the best idea to use it for a qt tank.

 

[Cpage101]

Hey guys! Been years since I had a tank. Looking to build a ~120 peninsula in wall as part of a kitchen reno happening in 12-18 months.

In the meantime, I was thinking of building a frag / grow out tank. My thought is I could buy and grow small sps frags into colonies in the mean time and use it as a quarantine tank for when the new tank is up and running. I ‘d likely plumb it into the main tank with the option to isolate it as needed.

Any downsides I am not thinking about here? There’s likely some additional cost associated to this approach, but thinking it may make sense in the long run.

if just using as a QT grow out I would keep it separate. I run a 28G fragrance tank separate to my IM 170EXT system. Not big on having to troubleshoot multiple systems as part of 1 systems when issue(s) arise.