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It was a pleasure meeting Scott and seeing The Alternative Reef's booth at MACNA 2010. I was able to pick up some frag plugs, frag disc, and a Chalice dome. The frag plus fit perfectly in to my Blue Glow frag racks and the Chalice dome is by far an awesome inception. Keep up the great work Scott. Please check out their website as their products will not disappoint. His frag plugs, frag discs, and other products are affordable and best of all he throws in a couple extra plugs in each pack in case of breakage. Thanks again and it was a pleasure meeting you.

We would also like to welcome The Alternative Reef as a Mini Ad Sponsor here on The Coral Vault.

The Blue Glow was founded by dedicated hobbyists with the goal of growing and strengthening our reef keeping community. They are dedicated to providing quality handmade acrylic products and aquaculture accessories. They are also committed to creating quality relationships with our customers.

Infinity Frag Racks
Blue Glow’s “Infinity Series” is the world’s first infinitely expandable coral propagation system. The racks come in 6”x6” plates with heights ranging in 1” to 8”. There are 36 plug holes per rack with 4 holes being used by the acrylic legs. Because the acrylic legs fit into any hole the configuration possibilities are endless.

Price Range
The racks come in 2 or 4 tier sets priced $24.95 and $44.95 respectively. You can also add a bottom rack to the 4 tier set for an additional $5.00.

Our Experience
All in all, these are the best frag racks on the market hands down.

The Blue Glow has created a new type of frag racks called the Infinity Series. These racks are 6x6 and each plate has 36 holes but the acrylic pegs fill 4 of the holes. They have racks ranging in heights from a 1” base plate to an 8” plate. We received 8 racks, one of each height. When we received the racks, the legs had broken off of two of the racks. The Blue Glow had no problem and was very quick to replace the 2 broken racks.

We were very excited to replace our ugly egg crate racks with these sleek acrylic racks into our 2’ x 2’ 40 gallon frag.  We noticed you can make any number of configurations you wanted with these. We were able to shade corals that did not require as much light and give corals that required intense light lots of light. As we arranged our racks we noticed that as the racks get taller they become much more top heavy and unsteady. If the taller racks are “hooked” into other racks as they should be, they become steadier and there were no issues.

The chore of cleaning the frag racks has become much easier. Because they are smaller squares, depending on your configuration, it is easy to take one section off, wipe it down, and replace it. This is where you have to be careful of the taller racks being top-heavy, if you place your higher racks in tank without being hooked.

Overall, for our 40 gallon frag tank I would choose Blue Glow’s Classic series, but for someone with a smaller frag tank or want to put some frags in there sump, the Infinity would be best because you can configure them to fit any space.

Egg crate should become obsolete after these are on the market for some time.

Pros

• Acrylic racks make cleaning easy
• Gives you the ability to make endless configurations.
• Sleek looking racks compared to egg crate.
• Small configurations can be used in a sump or refugium

 Cons

• Small plug holes. The Alternative Reef's plugs work perfectly.
• Racks above 4 or 5 inches become top-heavy and easily knocked over if they are not attached to other racks.

We would like to thank everyone who submitted photos and commented on corals. We had lots of submissions and we hope you continue to support The Coral Vault via coral submissions, Comments, forums, etc. Tell everyone about us. Also use our site to help other people on forums ID corals. Lots of users will post on forums saying something like ID Please. Link to this site with an ID.

We have selected a winner via random number generator: Pnoyreefer aka I-K@ndy

Pnoyreefer aka I-K@ndy has decided to pick a different person to receive this piece and the winner is: triton77 

See the announcement here: Click Here 

The Coral Vault would like to welcome Totally Exotic Corals of Oregon!

They specialize in growing and keeping only hardy strains of corals to provide you with some of the best specimens available. If you have a special request be sure to ask as they always have something growing in the back and have contacts to get most anything out there.

This is what we will be doing to kick of the launch of our site. We are going to be giving away a free Tyree LE Bubblegum Monster frag. That's right FREE. This frag is already 3 eyes and growing. The contest will last until March 31st Midnight. All you have to do in order to enter is register, submit picture for a coral, and comment on a coral. This coral can be one already listed or a newly named coral that we don't have in the database.

So let's recap. To enter do the following:

1) Register
2) Submit a coral
3) Comment on a coral

You do those 3 things and this is what you will have a chance to win. You are not getting a frag of this, you will win this exact piece plus a months more of growth.

SORRY BUT THIS IS ONLY OPEN TO THE USA ONLY. WILL NOT SHIP OUT OF THE COUNTRY