Refugium Benchmark

redreef85

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I am looking to set up a refugium for my tank. I am hoping to hear what is used locally to light your refugium, how big it is compared to you DT and what kind of algae you keep in it.

Thanks
Ben
 
I use a 29G fuge for my 90 display. I light it for 12hrs with 2 23W 5000K CFL flood lights that I got at home depot. I have some halmedia and a lot of chaeto in mine. I keep it bare bottom and have a little bit of rubble rock to benefit pods.

I've also kept grape caulerpa, but you need to run your lights for 24hrs to reduce the risk of that reproducing and releasing phosphates back into the water.
 
I use a 75g tank filled to about 55g volume for my entire sump. 1/3 of that is refugium space and I keep 10-15lbs of rock and rubble in it with chaeto and I also use a clamp on flood lamp with a cf 5000k bulb
 
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