Frag tanks

[jojo22]

This is where reading up old threads and equipment specs.....AKA RESEARCH comes in handy. I really don't see why you don't just ask someone to come over and do water changes for you as you sure won't do anything else on your own. And to answer your question who knows if it will be enough, what species how deep down???? We can't even try to help you since after 898 posts you still refuse to give us enough info!!

 

[dorkfish]

T-5 kicks the pants off VHO...

2 tubes should be enough to keep SPS in nearly all of a ten gallon tank, this is of course assuming the use parabolic reflectors. If you concerned, you might want to overdrive the bulbs with icecap ballasts/use Icecap retrofits (the icecap reflectors are a bit better than the teks FWIW).

 

[Mr.Firemouth]

Rock,
First off, adding another 20 gallons of water will help. However if you can get a pair of 20g or even 15g tanks at 24" that would be better. More water volume=better environmental stalibity.

Plumbing them to the main sump is easy. Using one central pump from the sump like a mag drive 24 would be perfect and reduce electrical cost of multiple pumps. You could easily T off for three ports returning water to the main display and to each frag tank. If an LFS can drill the tanks for you and add bulkhead fittings even better!

T5 lighting will be fine just get the HO models with Ice Cap ballasts. They will grow SPS.

If you use PVC and the submersible pump you can add ball valves to the plumbing to regulate the flow to each tank.

The egglite crating racks work great! You will need frag plugs and tubes of Super Glue Gel too.

I would use 1" of sugar sized sand in each frag tank also. It will help with biological filtration/denitrification processes.