What is in your refugium??

[Woodstock]

What is in your refugium???

My sump is my refugium. I have lots of cool stuff in it In one chamber I have a shallow sand bed with a few nassarius snail and rock rubble; in the other I have large rocks, mushroom, xenia, chaetomorpha macro algae, an urchin, convicted hermits, a few snails, and a few bio balls just incase I need bio seeds for my QT.

Here is a pic looking down into it from the top. This only shows 1/4 of it. You can see my poly filter to the left.

 

[Witfull]

just rock and carbon.

 

[spykes]

hehhe HEY i remember that picture. what's in mine? i dunno acrylic and silcon right now soon who knows =]

 

[Woodstock]

LOL spykes

 

[brian_e]

min eis empty now just cleaned it out all but some chaeto

 

[sarah]

hehe nothing in mine dont have one .

sarah xxxxxx

 

[mps9506]

what are the bioballs floating around for Doni?

I personally don't run a refugium. I prefer to try to minimze nutrients before algae can make use of them.

Mike

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Live rock and skimmer in the intake chamber. Caulerpa, two Sleeper Banded Gobies, Strawberry Psuedochromis, Nassaurius Snails, Scarlet Hermit, 4" DSB, and some polyps in my 24/7 lit refugium. :eye:

 

[Craig Manoukian]

You can see my refugium at the bottom of this photo.

:bigbounce

 

[Gina]

I guess you could say our sump is our refugium. We have some live sand (which I wish we hadn't put in) rock, heater, skimmer.

 

[Icebox]

well right now I have a return pump, skimmer, and about 20 lbs of live rock. I am looking forward to the day of haveing a 75 gal refuge at which time I will only have a heater and possible a small pump for water circulation. Then I will have a DSP, probably 50+ lbs of LR, some calerpa, and who knows exactly what other little things.

 

[johnlewis]

Right now just some rock and macro algae.

 

[Frankie]

Heres a picture of my refugium. Its a mud/fluidized bed system that i made out of a 30 gal. The water overflows from the main tank to the left side, then passes under the mud going up and through it, then overflowing to the next chamber where i keep the skimmer and drop in chiller. the heater is in the refugium. then the water gets pulled out and up to a uv sterilizer and returns to the tank. :hallo: Woody!

 

[Woodstock]

:hallo: Frankie

Nice. I have been thinking about using a glass aquarium for a sump upgrade. The sump I have now is a stripped acrylic wet dry.

Was it hard to make the baffles/walls? Did you use acrylic or glass? Any tips?

 

[Craig Manoukian]

My sump/refugium is a 29 gallon long glass aquarium.

 

[Woodstock]

Craig, do you have any walls/baffles in yours? If so, how did you make them?

 

[Craig Manoukian]

I have four acrylic baffles made by Tripp Plasics here in Reno. I siliconed them into my glass tank.

 

[Gina]

We have a 10g glass sump w/baffles. Mark measured the inside of the tank then we went to Lowes and had them cut it for us. We then used Silicone to install them, We had 3 pieces cut. It was very easy to do. Well, at least it was easy for him LOL not sure if it would have been for me!!

 

[Woodstock]

Thank you Craig and Gina. That doesn't sound difficult. Maybe I can make that my project after the holidays.

 

[spykes]

hehe go go doni.
here's my 2 cent for my fuge soon to be