New setup... overflow questions

[Tswifty]

It seems like you could add a fuge, a bare bottom one at least fairly easily. All you need is a 25 watt clip on desk lamp, and a small ball of cheato. Great natural filtration. If you do not have a small wall in front of the pump I wouldn't add sand, because it will get sucked into the pump. You could pieces of rock rubble as a substrate to protect any inverts that would grow.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12166486#post12166486 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kapella
Yes. the plan was to use center as a fuge. There is actually no wall there, but a netted separator.

there are some good setups on this thread


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1349443

 

[kapella]

Yep, this is what I am doing... already have the clipon lamp, cheto, not lr yet but I will add it in the near future. I have about 80lbs of LR in the taank though. What about mechanical filtration? Do you use any carbon in your setup?

 

[Tswifty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12166621#post12166621 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kapella
Yep, this is what I am doing... already have the clipon lamp, cheto, not lr yet but I will add it in the near future. I have about 80lbs of LR in the taank though. What about mechanical filtration? Do you use any carbon in your setup?

you do not need to use LR... get yourself some base rock, and it will become live rock over time, and way cheaper. All it's really doing in a BB fuge is providing hiding places and protecting your inverts.

As for mechanical filtration I will be utilizing 2 phosban reactors... One with phosban, the other with carbon.

Man... I'm starting to sound a lot like someone else on here :lol:

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12166743#post12166743 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tswifty8
you do not need to use LR... get yourself some base rock, and it will become live rock over time, and way cheaper. All it's really doing in a BB fuge is providing hiding places and protecting your inverts.

As for mechanical filtration I will be utilizing 2 phosban reactors... One with phosban, the other with carbon.

Man... I'm starting to sound a lot like someone else on here :lol:

:lol: :rollface: :lol:

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12166743#post12166743 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tswifty8
you do not need to use LR... get yourself some base rock, and it will become live rock over time, and way cheaper. All it's really doing in a BB fuge is providing hiding places and protecting your inverts.

As for mechanical filtration I will be utilizing 2 phosban reactors... One with phosban, the other with carbon.

Man... I'm starting to sound a lot like someone else on here :lol:

I just got 40 lbs of quality base rock for 50 lbs--I threw it in the sump with other live rock and it will be fully seeded in two months time. No need to worry about curing because it is fully cured already.

 

[kapella]

So what inverts do you guys keep in there? And for what?

 

[Tswifty]

hmmm... thats a complicated question... because it's not inverts like you would think...

I'm not very familiar with all the terminology, but I'll take a stab at it.

In the refugium you are basically "growing" your own inverts and copods. I know in my fuge I have tons of pods, little bug like critters running around, and lots of bristle worms. Also I have a few snails in there which I added myself. However all the others hatched and grew in the fuge on their own. A good amount of them host in either the substrate or in the actual ball of cheato.

These inverts help sift the sand and remove proteins, and also will trickle out into the return area and be shot up to via the pump and feed the display tank inhabitants.

 

[kapella]

So, just to make sure... I dont have to have sand, just some LR rubble. Other then snails, do I need to buy any other inverts mentioned above? can bristle worms servive without sand?

 

[Tswifty]

no other than snails you do not need to buy any of the others... I'm not sure about the bristle worm question... so here's a bump to hopefully get some insight from other members.

 

[kapella]

I know for sure, I have one... lol in my old tank that i am trying to move to the new one...

He lives in the rock i dont want to put in the sump though.

 

[Tswifty]

I know I have tons of them in my refugium, but that being said I have a 4-5" sand bed in it. I believe they can also host in the Cheato, but like I said before I am not certain...

Here's a link to a discussion regarding refugiums:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1349443&perpage=25&pagenumber=1