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Old 12-02-2003, 08:32 PM   #63 (permalink)
Maxx
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No not wrong....
If your refuge is holding a full 60 gallons than your turning it over approx 6 1/2 times an hour. If your refugiums purpose is to export nutrients thru macro algae growth..than you might be going to fast w/ it....but your tank will tell you if thats the case...just like Cos said in his previous post about the Monti w/ some algae growing near it....If nothing is wrong...don't try and fix it.
however if your seeing algae growth in the main tank that you don't want (nuisance algae) tehn you might try to slow that down to half the flow you currently have in the refugium. That will give the macro algae more time to absorb nutirents like phosphate etc from the water column....
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