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- Hey, it's Thomas here
and today we're gonna be checking out Tunze's coral rack.
If you want a place to put your frags
in your display tank that will blend into your scape
rather than stick out or maybe you're just out of places
for a new coral and wanna add some new real estate
without having to change up your current rock structure
and want a magnetic frag rack that can give you
a gravity defying piece of porous ceramic dry rock
that is ready to hold those frags
and look great while doing it,
then check out the Tunze coral rack.
Really, I think they'd even just be awesome
by themselves in like a pico or nano reef as the scape.
They're so similar in texture to just dry rock
and they're gonna get covered in biofilm and coraline
and they'll look brilliant.
Fantastic Frags and Where to Place Them should be a meme
if it isn't one already.
Reefers have been finding different ways
to keep their newly purchased, traded
or recently cut coral frags neat, tidy
and safe in their aquariums for decades.
While some reefers don't mind a DIY egg crate
or slick acrylic frag rack in their display,
a lot of us striving for that natural slice
of the ocean aesthetic really aren't that keen
on having those frag racks hanging off the glass
and would prefer something that blends
into the Aquascape rather than stands out.
In the box you'll find the coral rack
with the magnetic mounts.
They come in two sizes.
The nano is roughly seven inches long, five inches high
and three inches wide with holes for six plugs.
And the long that I have here is roughly nine
and 1/2 inches long by five and 1/2 inches high
and almost four inches wide with holes for eight plugs.
The look and feel of these racks is extremely close
to dry rock like BRS Reef Saver or MarcoRock.
They're rough, porous and each individual rack is handmade
and unique, which is great
if you wanna use more than one in your scape
and really don't want them to appear repetitive.
The magnetic mounts that Tunze includes are really strong
and both the internal and the external magnet are waterproof
making these racks really easy to find a good spot for,
even if you wanna place it directly on your overflow.
The magnets are gonna mount firmly on glass
up to 15 millimeters or just over 1/2 an inch thick
and support between 1.8 and 4.4 pounds,
depending on glass thickness.
Not sure if you've seen what 4.4 pounds
of coral would look like, but it's a lot of coral.
Like a lot.
Like I mentioned, they have either six or eight holes
for frag plugs, depending on which model you go with.
And they'll comfortably fit plugs
with a crown diameter of up to 0.9 inches
and a stem diameter of up to 0.43 inches.
If your goal is to jam as many frags as possible
into the tightest space possible,
then these probably aren't what you're after
and you might be better off with a traditional
slick acrylic frag rack, but thanks to that rough surface on
the coral racks, you can also treat them just like live rock
and mount the corals anywhere on the surface of the rack,
which would be a great option for those
who wanna farm encrusting corals or zooxanthellaes.
You can let the coral take over the entire rack
and then once the plugs are covered,
cut them out and remove them,
replace them with empty plugs for the corals
to grow back over top of, rinse and repeat, coral farm.
I personally also really love the idea of using these racks
as a way to add new real estate
to an already jam packed reef tank full of corals.
Reefers have a hard time turning down
a killer looking coral frag
and having a way to easily add new space in your reef
without having to disrupt your current scape
or move corals to add on to the existing rock work
is gonna be a very attractive alternative
for a lot of reefers.
Plus, if you ever decide a different spot
in your reef tank would be better for that rack,
you can very easily just move it around.
I'm also really digging the idea of using them
as an Aquascape for a pico or nano reef.
One or even a few of these racks could make
for a really cool floating scape.
That's actually one reason why I really like negative space
Aquascapes, and minimizing the amount of contact
that your rock work has with the bottom of the tank.
Ryan's actually got a phenomenal video
on how you can make your own NSA Aquascape.
You can check it out right here.
I actually use the exact same method
of gluing the rocks using Insta set
to speed up that workflow
so your creativity can blossom, so to speak.
I just wish that I used the exact same step he did
with substrate on the rock work
to kind of make it look awesome.
You'll see what I mean.
Check it out.
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