h20poloman
09-19-2012, 08:31 PM
I began my search for a quality frag rack, one that looked more appealing to the eye than your standard egg crate with some magnets glued to it. I also have a very large turbo snail that seems to always crawl on my eshopps frag rack and I'd come home to my rack laying sideways on the sandbed and sometimes frags that had fallen out. Nothing like having your $300 chalice frag fall out and get stung by another coral and die. After inquiring in a thread for the best frag rack available on the market I was directed to BlackRock Reef for both a rack that has stronger magnets and some sex appeal to it. :)
http://www.blackrockreef.com/about.html
I decided to go with the larger rack option (MR3-L) which comes in black and is 8.66"L x 4.33"W x 1.81" H and is rated to attach to glass up to 1/2" thick. Cost was $35 and that includes shipping. I had received some feedback that these racks could possibly take a while to be received or question if the owner (Daniel) was still actually making these. I received a confirmation for my order and had a follow up from Daniel I believe a day or two later advising that my rack would ship out a few days later on a Monday via USPS. Wednesday afternoon the frag rack arrived boxed well and in great condition. I've very impressed with the quality and look of the frag rack. I've emailed Daniel to see if he could make a custom rack that is longer with possibly 5-6 magnets as I would like to get more frags on the rack itself. With some of the plugs I use it's very hard to have them right next to each other unless you are primarily having SPS frags.
The rack also comes with a business card that provides the warning about the strength of the magnets and a reminder to keep them out of the way of children. I'll let you know if that darn massive turbo snail knocks this rack over but from the looks of it this thing its not coming down without me physically doing so. Great buy!
Pros: It's sexy
strong quality magnets
octogon shaped holes - easy for variety of sized plugs to fit
Cons:holes are fairly close so depending on your frags you may need to have an empty frag hole between plugs
price (this could also be a Pro considering the quality IMO)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/marlin_plank/BlackrockReefFragrackup_zps3f07c75f.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/marlin_plank/BlackrockReefFragrackoutsidetank_zpsbbc69055.jpg
http://www.blackrockreef.com/about.html
I decided to go with the larger rack option (MR3-L) which comes in black and is 8.66"L x 4.33"W x 1.81" H and is rated to attach to glass up to 1/2" thick. Cost was $35 and that includes shipping. I had received some feedback that these racks could possibly take a while to be received or question if the owner (Daniel) was still actually making these. I received a confirmation for my order and had a follow up from Daniel I believe a day or two later advising that my rack would ship out a few days later on a Monday via USPS. Wednesday afternoon the frag rack arrived boxed well and in great condition. I've very impressed with the quality and look of the frag rack. I've emailed Daniel to see if he could make a custom rack that is longer with possibly 5-6 magnets as I would like to get more frags on the rack itself. With some of the plugs I use it's very hard to have them right next to each other unless you are primarily having SPS frags.
The rack also comes with a business card that provides the warning about the strength of the magnets and a reminder to keep them out of the way of children. I'll let you know if that darn massive turbo snail knocks this rack over but from the looks of it this thing its not coming down without me physically doing so. Great buy!
Pros: It's sexy
strong quality magnets
octogon shaped holes - easy for variety of sized plugs to fit
Cons:holes are fairly close so depending on your frags you may need to have an empty frag hole between plugs
price (this could also be a Pro considering the quality IMO)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/marlin_plank/BlackrockReefFragrackup_zps3f07c75f.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h142/marlin_plank/BlackrockReefFragrackoutsidetank_zpsbbc69055.jpg