Whats in your Refugium?

[Ednigma13]

I’m building a refugium and looking for ideas on how to design it and what I should put in it. Tell me about yours, please share pictures if you have any.

What do you have in yours?

Whats your flow rate?

What are you using for lighting?

Thanks

 

[ToddR]

Mine is still half baked ( newly set up tank ), that right now has a couple pieces of live rock from my 75 ( mainly to help with bacteria, used dry rock in the tank ), and some macro algae.

The flow, is around 800 GPH ( guessing, pump is rate just under 1,000 factoring headloss ), but given the size of the sump, I would say on the low side.

For the lights, 2 clip on fixtures from Home Depot, with LED lamps.

One of the lights, the other one is higher up, and behind it. They are clip ons, but used zip ties as a back up

On the far right you can see both light fixtures

 

[trackfast]

In the fuge section I have LR, chaeto, a power head and a sponge for pods. The flow thru the fuge is slow but the PH does keep things moving.

 

[Ednigma13]

For the lights, 2 clip on fixtures from Home Depot, with LED lamps.

What size and color are the LEDs?

In the fuge section I have LR, chaeto, a power head and a sponge for pods. The flow thru the fuge is slow but the PH does keep things moving.

What are you using the sponge for??

 

[babbyk]

I have a 10 gallon fuge with about 4 inches of sand, a nice sized ball of calupera, and as much live rubble as I can fit. I have mine set to a slow swamp like flow where water flows through at a slow rate, I use a off the home depot shelf bulb.

 

[babbyk]

Also, I try to acquire the rubble from different sources, and I seeded it with 2000 pods from reefs2go

 

[trackfast]

What are you using the sponge for??

I transfer the sponge into my DT occasionally to get more pods to my mandarin.

 

[Ednigma13]

I have a 10 gallon fuge with about 4 inches of sand, a nice sized ball of calupera, and as much live rubble as I can fit. I have mine set to a slow swamp like flow where water flows through at a slow rate, I use a off the home depot shelf bulb.

Does it do a good job keeping your nitrates low? How big is the bulb and what color is it?

Also, I try to acquire the rubble from different sources, and I seeded it with 2000 pods from reefs2go

What kind of pods?

I transfer the sponge into my DT occasionally to get more pods to my mandarin.

Good idea, what kind of sponge do you use?

 

[trackfast]

I use an old Aquaclear alone that I had. You can also use one of those shower"scrunchies" too.

 

[babbyk]

Does it do a good job keeping your nitrates low? How big is the bulb and what color is it?



What kind of pods?



I have run this type of fuge on all 3 tanks I have owned, I also run a skimmer and carbon in a 2 little fishies 150 reactor. My nitrates measure 0ppm, and p02 is also in the lowest range of my test kit. I like to keep tangs who make a mess when they eat Nori, I feed 2 nori clips and 2 servings of food per day.

I don't remember the exact color of the bulb, I think it's in the 5k range, one of those 60W equivalent bulbs which I run 24/7. The pods were a variety, check their web page for more info.

Hope this helps.

 

[ToddR]

What size and color are the LEDs?

Will have to check tonight. Pretty sure they are the Cree ones, just the replacement ones for incandescents.