Refugium/SUMP Critters

[Jerms01]

Hey All,
My refugium is starting to buildup with algae and aiptasia. At this point I have not put any CUC but was planning on it this weekend. I can see brittle stars, brine, pods, little things that look like bristle worms, aiptasia, and a ton of unidentifiable crawlies. Kind of cool tho!

My refugium is set up with a DSB about 5-6" thick, covered with another 6" of LR rubble, then Chaeto to top it off.

Just curious to see what everyone else has in their fuge for cleanup before I make my decision. Also do you see any issues with peppermint shrimp in the fuge to clean up the aiptasia?

Thanks,
Jerms

 

[spider1218]

only issue i had with pepperments in the fuge is they ate the aiptasia and then when they ran out they ate all the pods then starved too death. this was two schrimp in about a ten gallon fuge. took about a month for the pods to recover.