Refugium stocking

[ReefJerk]

I would like to know what everyone stocks their fuges with as far as inverts and such. I was checking the fuge packages on drmaccorals.com and it is quite a bit compared to what I have. I'll start with my list:

- Macros (Chaeto, grape cualerpa, Halimeda)
- Sand (about 10-20 pounds
- Rubble (about 2-3 pounds)
- No added invert, just some snails that found their way down the overflows.

Do I need 6 cukes, 12 conchs, and 55 assorted snails?!?!?! That seems like quite a bit. Please chime in.

Cliff

 

[reefkoi]

I'm so old school I don't have a fuge, by the time I'd get around to setting up one they will be history and something else will be new

 

[normanviking]

How about some aiptasia? lol I was like putting in a cucumber and some snails. Along with the various algaes, DSB, and rubble. What size fuge or setup are they recomending that much for?

 

[murfman]

I have sand, macros and some hermits and nassarius.

 

[lfduty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9713304#post9713304 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by murfman
I have sand, macros and some hermits and nassarius.

 

[ReefJerk]

I forgot, I do have aiptasia in there. I let them alone seeing that I have a CBB and some peppermint shrimp in the display.

 

[normanviking]

They are good filter deeders no doubt. have you seen for sale on EBAY as refuguim cleanup crews. Seems a little excessive. lol I would not volunteerily(?) put them in.

 

[Deuce67]

Fuge? Whats that? LOL!

 

[ReefJerk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9714520#post9714520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Deuce67
Fuge? Whats that? LOL!

Well, Russ, you're on a whole other level. Who needs a fuge with results like yours? :eek1:

 

[racer69]

I just have chaeto, rock rubble, and various snails and hermit crabs.

 

[reefkoi]

You know I read that live tigger pods from reef nutrition are supposed to be very cool for refugiums, Scott just got a fresh load of them in today (I was picking up some phyto feast and the infamous arcti-pods my fish go nuts over.

Anyway I saw these tigger pods when I was down there, he had a cool little lighted display setup and I was reading about them living and benefitting a refugium and thought of this post.
Chris

 

[murfman]

What are the benifits?

 

[ReefJerk]

They are extremely beneficial for mandarin and polyp feeding from what I've read. High in HUFA and stuff like that. I might get some to see if I can culture them. My mysis shrimp thrive in my fuge so maybe they will too.

 

[reefkoi]

yeah I grabbed a brochure its has a bunch of benefits for the fish that eat them like cliff said. T. californicus eats microscopic algae, protists, bacteria, diatoms, algae and microbes (McGroarty 1958). The T. Californium’ life cycle has 14 stages, and can live from 50-100 days.

thats a few thing from the website, these little buggers are small though! I was gonna buy some to feed my small fish but I think refugium is the more logical choice, and since I don't have one I just passed on them.