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- Hey, it's Thomas here
and today we're going to be checking out
Fiji Cubes, magnetic, frag racks.
If you've got frags
that you need a safe place for butter, tight
on space and want a clean looking low-profile rack
that will fit a bunch of frags not only neatly but securely
so you can hit them with all the light and flow they'll need
without worrying about them jostling around,
then you've got to check out
Fiji Cubes magnetic frag racks.
They're locking feature is huge for me personally,
I've had, I don't know how many snails and grasses
over the years knocked frags all over the place
making a big old mess.
Peace of mind.
Coral frags are an inevitability when it comes to
re keeping.
Even if you adopt a tank filled with large colonies
you'd eventually need to do some trimming
as the corals grow too close together
and you'll find yourself looking
for a safe place to put those frags.
More likely though, you'll be getting lots of frags
from your local fish store, frags swaps, fellow reefers
or even shipped from your favorite online vendor.
And you want a safe spot
for them while you decide where in your tank
you want to glue them down so they can grow out.
And if you're anything like me that could take a few days,
maybe weeks,
I can be pretty indecisive.
Leaving frags resting
on your rock work or
in the sand bed, is a recipe for damaged corals.
If I had a dollar for every time
I heard about a fried diet was
on the sand bed and got knocked over and buried
or was just sitting on the rock work and got knocked over
by a snail or Ras and landed
on another coral and damaged it,
I'd be able to fill that tank behind me.
Wall-to-wall with corals for free.
And that is one
of the biggest reasons why magnetic frag racks
have become one of the most popular options out there.
Fiji Cube nailed it with their sleek magnetic racks.
They're built with black cast acrylic with a nice
clear blue accent acrylic on the bottom and
having a great locking system to hold those plugs in place.
Sandwiched in the middle.
Fiji Cube used N52 triple coded neodymium magnets to
hold those wrecks firmly in place
and also made the racks modular so they can be taken apart
for cleaning, which is a really nice touch.
I'll show you how to take them apart in just a bit
but first got to get them out of the boxes.
In the box you'll find the magnetic frag rack
with the included magnetic mount.
The racks are available in three sizes
including an 8 plug, a 16 plug and a 32 plug version
and range in length from 8.25 inches up to 11.35 inches.
They're designed to hold plugs
with a 0.5 inch diameter stem or smaller.
And each hole is spaced 0.5 inches apart.
All three sizes will hold firmly
on panels up to half an inch thick, using water
tight acrylic encased magnets.
The platform of these racks is only three eighths
of an inch thick and the black acrylic hides really nicely
on the back of a tank
with a black background, the transparent blue lower
does a good job of minimizing the overall silhouette
of the rack and the rounded corners look great.
Also, if you like taking pictures of your frags separated
by fluorescent acrylic rods like these, the solid black
of the does a great job of making those rods super visible
and makes for a nice clean backdrop
for those wissy wig posts.
Now, my favorite part
of these racks is actually the plug locking system,
in between the upper and lower portions of the frag rack.
There is a softer white material that provides five nubs
inside of each of the holes of the racks.
These nubs provide some pressure and resistance on the stem
of the frag plug and prevent it from being easily bumped
around or jostled, which is brilliant.
This is especially helpful,
if you have plugs with thinner stands, that don't sit nicely
in a standard half inch hole or an egg crate
or if you have any snails or fish that are notorious
for knocking frags around, I've even had a full rack of SPS
frags get shaken up just
by the flow needed to keep those frags happy.
And this locking feature solves that problem.
The last thing you want is your prized frag
tumbling off the rack and
into the sandbag and getting buried or in
between the crevices of your rock work or worse
into another prized coral that just makes my skin crawl.
And that's why this walking feature rocks.
Fiji cube did something interesting and used a removable
plastic rivet system to assemble their racks so
that they could be taken apart from maintenance.
I can definitely appreciate that
and although the layers are held together tightly
there's likely going to be some debris or algae
that makes it in between the sandwich walking layer
over time, or even just on the nubs themselves
and being able to get in and clean it out is great.
That way you can always keep the frag rack
looking new even after it's been in
Use for months.
Speaking of new,
before you add any new corals to your magnetic racks
you want to make every effort possible to make sure you're
not getting any unwanted coral pests coming along with them
and starting with a great dip solution is a great way to
just knock off the nasties
so they don't end up in your tank.
Ryan and Randy have a great video.
You can check out right here on the top coral dips
of the year, walk you through the different types of dips
why one might be better than the other
for specific situation.
So you can pick out which coral
This is going to be best for your corals as well
as your budget.
So go ahead and check it out,
And then you can put your clean
Corals on your slick racks.