Creating Refugium inside Corner Overflow

[SkullV]

I am purchasing 90-100gal bowfront (dimensions are funny) and the previous owner had it drilled with a durso but no overflow. I purchased a rather large 8"x8"x26" (7gal) corner overflow from Zeroedge.

I was wondering if anyone has put a DSB and chaeto inside their overflow box if they have a grate on their durso? 100% of the water would be exposed to the chaeto and it wouldn't require any additional lighting since the tank lights would be overhead and I would be able to fit a ton of sand/chaeto since the overflow box holds as much water as many people's pico reefs! I also think it would be cool to house some kind of small burrowing fish in there since the sand bed could be 10" or so deep.

Any Ideas?

 

[Agu]

I've used the overflows on a Oceanic 180 as a refugium with just live rock and it was fine , until I had a fish jump in there. About the fourth time I had to empty an overflow to catch a fish the rock stayed in the sump .

I'd skip the sand, and build an eggcrate barrier to keep the chaeto out of the drain line area.

jmo,

 

[SkullV]

Hmm not a bad idea. I was just thinking about the benefit of a DSB in the refugium.