What's your ideal refugium?

[stephenhall1987]

What do you think would be the best refugium setup? Realistically speaking, the optimal refugium design.
Size? Contents? Sp of algae? Light? Flow?

Pictures of your current refugium / sump filtration welcome!

 

[stephenhall1987]

I'm planning on getting 3 Aqueon 33gal long aquariums, and drilling and plumbing them in series. They will be mounted above the display tank. Each tank will have a separate species of macro algae, and the clean water and copepods will slowly drain into the display tank.

 

[Windirmere]

Look up Mrsaltwaterfish on youtube about refugiums

 

[klwheat]

This is mine...designed by Louis at Elegant Reef here in San Antonio.
54"x18"x15". Drains, filter socks, skimmer, return, refugium. I love it so far!

 

[unitedbga]

Go with 2 inch bulkheads and 2 inch pvc to connect them. What your looking at doing is very similar to my setup. I'll take a picture.

 

[unitedbga]

Here is a pic of it. Water is pumped up to the top tanks and goes through a filter box up on top of each tank. Then goes down a 2 inch pvc pipe back into the main tank. I also have a 3/4 hose coming down from the other side of the refugiums as a backup.

 

[das75]

my chaeto fuge (maybe 200g/h between flow and power head, 13W 6500K CFL)

But what I still think the best idea (Dez's old display)

 

[unitedbga]

This is mine...designed by Louis at Elegant Reef here in San Antonio.
54"x18"x15". Drains, filter socks, skimmer, return, refugium. I love it so far!

Looks Great!

 

[unitedbga]

my chaeto fuge (maybe 200g/h between flow and power head, 13W 6500K CFL)

But what I still think the best idea (Dez's old display)

Lots of chaeto in there. Very nice!

 

[stephenhall1987]

Wow, life got busy! lol
Thanks guys for all of the responses!

Here is a pic of it.

That is very similar to what I was thinking, but mine would be in series, and hidden inside my canopy.

my chaeto fuge

I've thought about doing a display refugium like that, but I don't know if I want the added hassle of keeping the refugium clean...


Right now, because of finances and busy schedule, I bought a single 30 breeder (36" x 18" x 12") instead of three 33 longs (48" x 13" x 12"). I'm just going to plumb it in with my current sump (more traditional), maybe if i free up some time I'll build a rig to mount it above my tank.
I'll try and post pictures when I get it finished.