My new tray tank

[JakeLevenson]

a friend and I just finished my little frag tray, and jv fish holding....not plumbed into my rack yet. But thought I'd post the picture.

 

[emabie]

How thick acrylic did you use so it did not need a top to keep it from flexing?

 

[Armando]

nice. stand not too leveled

 

[JakeLevenson]

I used 1/4, perfect thickness and not overkill.

 

[sharkobeach]

nice. what are the dimensions?

 

[ScottM]

might want to brace that top or its likely to bow

 

[TBoisvert]

How many gallons is that? How do you plan to keep the temp stable? It just seems so shallow.

Tam

 

[JakeLevenson]

Its looped into a much larger system, so the temp is fine, its only about 8-9 gallons, buy for small gobies or banggai fry, it's perfect.

 

[Tstone]

What are the dimensions? I doubt if its tall enough to get much bow out of it. If its only 8-9 gal then there is not much pressure.
Looks perfect for a frag tank. Nice.

 

[JakeLevenson]

Thanks! It's pretty solid. I'm thinking I'll add some screened dividers and keep mated pairs of neon gobies in one section, and use the rest for frags. It's about 5 3/4 deep by 30 long (or so)

 

[Tstone]

30 X ? X 5 3/4

 

[Armando]

Its looped into a much larger system, so the temp is fine, its only about 8-9 gallons, buy for small gobies or banggai fry, it's perfect.

is this much larger system your reef tank? i'd be concern with the high nutrients in the fry system deteriorating the conditions of the reef tank.

 

[JakeLevenson]

30 X ? X 5 3/4

i was just ballpaking it. I think it was a 36 length of acrylic I cut for the bottom, and split a 12" down the middle for the 4 sides....

 

[Tstone]

Well I was gonna tell you the exact gallons but can't without the deminsions.
If you want to figure out how much water it holds this is the formula.
LxWxH/231=gallons

 

[JakeLevenson]

is this much larger system your reef tank? i'd be concern with the high nutrients in the fry system deteriorating the conditions of the reef tank.

Thanks Armando, real good point. That's the last time I show off my DIY handywork! Just kidding. When I'm rebuilt I plan to have the flow through the fry area pretty slow, in addition to the usual skimmer, caco3 reactor, and uv or ozone, I was thinking a combination of bag fillter like this one,(http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/iid/4464/cid/1290) with a sediment basin, just like the ones that have been used in hatcheries for trout fry, prior to the bag filter. My idea was that the So the waste fry feed would drop into the sediment basin, and be removed from the water that is recirculating, but remain in the sediment basin holding tank so you can keep the live feed and discard the remaining waste. I'll see if I can find a diagram to share.

 

[Scuba_Dave]

Nice job, good idea
36" long x 12" wide by 6" high = 11g

Garf has a calculator that you enter lxwxh & it shows you gallons
You can also enter sand & rock & ot will tell you how much water
http://www.garf.org/

I was thinking about doing something like that
But ended up with an 8' 75g acrylic tank for free

 

[JakeLevenson]

Thought I would post a quick update on my breeding rack and tray system. This is whats been done so far. They'll be two 30 gallon breeder size tanks, and three frag trays and an area for hatching brine and growing rotifers when all is said and done.

http://web.mac.com/jlevenson/iWeb/Surplus Fish, Corals, and Inverts/Jake's Pretend Side Biz.html

 

[crzy4reefs]

very neat in deed, would be something i would like to do my husband loves DIY projects. right now he's working on growing rotifers.