Joanne's Frag Plug
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Published on February 3, 2012
Description
This is a simple Coral Reef Frag Plug for your salt water aquarium. It fits perfectly in an egg crate slot. It has a small hole in the top for holding glue. It weighs about 1/8 of an once using PLA at 100% fill. It sinks!
Instructions
We discovered there are 2 sizes of egg crate. Ones with 14mm wide and 13mm wide holes. So, be sure to download the right file for your egg crate. You can also scale it of course but the 13mm and 14mm versions have the same head size.
Print it out, cut off a piece of your coral, glue it to the plug and insert it into an empty slot in your egg crate. Super easy, super cheap!
You can now also download it in a 12 pack!
Also, be sure to check out Shane's frag plug thingiverse.com/thing:16982
Print it out, cut off a piece of your coral, glue it to the plug and insert it into an empty slot in your egg crate. Super easy, super cheap!
You can now also download it in a 12 pack!
Also, be sure to check out Shane's frag plug thingiverse.com/thing:16982
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engineglue
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February 4, 2012
said:
Hey there! Glad you like the plug. My wife has used PCL plastic in her aquarium for about a year now, it is probably more disolvable than PLA and it works great. We'll certainly find out if PLA holds up. ;) Like to see your frag plug. Let me know when you post it.
ECsuyu
on
February 4, 2012
said:
Nice to see other reef keepers on thingiverse! I wonder how PLA will do under water as It is a dis solvable plastic based off corn sugars, it might end up acting like biopellets in a way.
sgraber
on
February 4, 2012
said:
Aaahhh, you beat me to it! I've got a frag plug that I designed a couple months ago that I haven't uploaded yet. I'll have to do it this weekend! :-[
License
Joanne's Frag Plug by engineglue is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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I'm a Reef keeper too! I'm glad people are doing this. I need to design some probe holders and what not. You'd think I'd do that instead of random things!
Great idea. I'm sure there are plenty of things that can be designed for the hobby!