How to design a refugium? x-post from DIY

bemenaker

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Hope this isn't violating the rules x-posting my question here, maybe I spend too much time on reddit....

We are getting ready to setup our 65 gallon tank, and it will have a 10 gallon refugium under it. The way this ran in the past, it just had live rock, cheato, and a skimmer in it, well the return pump also. There were no chambers setup in it, it was just one large open space with all of that in it.

I have looked through a lot of different threads on building refugiums, and most people seem to have the drain from the DT and the skimmer in a baffled compartment seperate from the actual refugium portion, and seems the return pump also baffled off. Is the baffling necessary, and/or what function does it actually server?

Thanks in advance.

--Brian
 
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