- Hey! It's Thomas here
and today we're gonna be taking a look
at Innovative Marines, reef racks.
Coral frags are an integral part of modern reef keeping.
Most of us will start out with frags
when we begin a new reef tank and then
we'll eventually need to make frags of our own corals.
As they grow into mature colonies
and start getting a little too close to their neighbors.
Once we've got our frags finding a safe spot
in our reef tank to put them on a temporary basis
has always been a bit of a challenge.
Trying to stick the stem of a frag plug
into the crevice of your rock Work
can work from time to time, but snails, urchins, fish,
or sometimes just the flow in your tank
can send that frag tumbling to the sand bed
or worse into another coral.
Which is why most reefers prefer to use a frag rack.
Innovative Marines reef racks are a unique
acrylic frag rack system that can support lots
and lots of frags and look pretty dang slick while doing it.
Whether you prefer them to be magnetically mounted
to the glass or sitting sturdily on the bottom of the tank
Innovative Marine has you covered.
And these racks have a very cool trick up their sleeve
that makes them quite capable of growing with you
and your needs.
Every model can expand and contract
to support more or less frags.
So if you don't have a ton of frags at the moment
they can take up less space.
And when you do have lots of frags
they can expand it to support them.
I'll show you exactly how they do that shortly
but first let's get them out of their boxes.
In the boxes you'll find the reef racks themselves along
with their expandable plates and
with the magnetic 32 hole version
you'll find the rear magnetic mount.
There are three models available
including the 32 magnetic rack
the 50 standing rack and the 102 standing rack.
The 32 will hold firmly on panels up to half an inch thick
and can support up to 19 frags when it is most compact,
which is just over eight inches wide and four inches
front to back
and 32 frags when it's fully expanded to 12 inches wide
and five inches front to back.
The 50 will hold up to 26 frags when it's most compact
and will sit around roughly eight inches wide
and 5.5 inches front to back and up to 50 frags
when expanded putting it at roughly 11 inches wide
and nine inches front to back.
The 102 will hold up to 51 frags sitting at roughly
13 inches wide and five and a half inches front to back
and a whopping 102 frags when expanded
to its maximum of 21 and a half inches wide
and eight and three quarters of an inch front to back.
All of the racks can also be partially expanded
which means you've actually got a variety
of different sizes for each rack to better suit your needs.
Whether it's space constraints within your tank
or a sudden influx of extra frags
that need a safe place to call home.
They can also be teamed up and used in conjunction
with one another to create large rack systems
which is a really cool idea and adds to their flexibility.
For example, if you want to add a second 32
you can use one of the extendable sides to act
as a bridge to join the two, which will spread some
of that frag weight across two magnets instead of one.
You can also use a couple of the 50 or 102 models
to create bridges, pyramids or stages which is a lot of fun.
The holes in all of the refracts are 15 millimeters
or 0.59 inches in diameter and are spaced 10 millimeters
or 0.39 inches apart
which will fit a wide variety of frag plugs.
If you do want to use all available spots all at once
a frag plug with a half inch diameter stem
and a three quarter inch diameter disc is going to
be a very comfortable fit.
The racks are built from acrylic and have laser cut holes
that act as flow ports to prevent water around the racks
from becoming stagnant and trapping, detritus and debris
as well as allowing flow to reach the corals.
When it comes to aesthetics while they don't fit
a natural theme, they do look really slick and being able to
expand and contract the racks based on how many frags
you currently need to support makes them not only flexible
but also less obtrusive when you don't have a pile
of frags that you need space for.
So if you like what you see here and these Innovative
Marine reef racks match your reefing mantra
you can pick one up for yourself by clicking right here.
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