I have a 20 gallon tank and can't really add an undertank fuge... I'm thinking of having the intake in the back right corner and having a 6-12" sump going the tanks length and then having that go into a fuge about 12-14" wide and then having it go back into the tank in the front left top corner of the tank. This should give me around 10 more gallons and a lot of pod support... Do you think that that 200gph would be a strong enough flow? Would a fuge about 12"x12" filled with chaeto give me enough pod support for a mandarin?
Wraparound Fuge
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papagimp
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Yeah the fuge would be enough to support a mandarin, plenty big enough. I have a 10g fuge, but only about 5g water holding capacity. Had my mandarin for couple of years (before he recently jumped out of my tank...AARRRRRRGGGG!)
flow is kinda low, I'd probably go at least 300-350gph. But that's more of a personal preference, since it's only a 20g, 200g through a fuge should be sufficient. May have to rinse the cheato ball outmore often with less flow though. YOu don't want detritus building up on that either.
Still not 100% on how you plan to do that fuge, your description is a little vague. Keep in mind the possibility for a flood or overflow while your setting it up, let gravity do the work, do not try to pump the water from the sump into a fuge and then pump it back into the tank from the fuge. won't work.
flow is kinda low, I'd probably go at least 300-350gph. But that's more of a personal preference, since it's only a 20g, 200g through a fuge should be sufficient. May have to rinse the cheato ball outmore often with less flow though. YOu don't want detritus building up on that either.
Still not 100% on how you plan to do that fuge, your description is a little vague. Keep in mind the possibility for a flood or overflow while your setting it up, let gravity do the work, do not try to pump the water from the sump into a fuge and then pump it back into the tank from the fuge. won't work.
papagimp
COMAS Rocks!
month and a half isn't eough time for him to starve to death mikey, give it a few more months. I had kept my mandarin (he was my first SW fish purchase) in a new 29g setup, no sumps or anything. He went fine for about 3 months then I noticed he was looking deathy skinny. Kept adding aqua-pods to the system until I could get him moved.
This fish, like many other livestock, does not starve and die off quickly, it'll be a painful lenthy death for him. And unless you happen to have one that is eating prepared foods and not relying completely on the pods, then he will die soon enough, it's sad, but it's completely 100% true. I'd advice you to either get a refugium going ASAP or get some aqua-pods or tigger-pods from the LFS and get that fish fed. (do try and target feed him though, nothing rocks like a mandarin that eats frozen mysis and cyclopeeze!)
This fish, like many other livestock, does not starve and die off quickly, it'll be a painful lenthy death for him. And unless you happen to have one that is eating prepared foods and not relying completely on the pods, then he will die soon enough, it's sad, but it's completely 100% true. I'd advice you to either get a refugium going ASAP or get some aqua-pods or tigger-pods from the LFS and get that fish fed. (do try and target feed him though, nothing rocks like a mandarin that eats frozen mysis and cyclopeeze!)
Only thing I'd be worried about would be my skills in sealing the thing properly so as not to have a fuge bust on me. But if your confident it'll holdup fine, than way to go and nice innovative idea.Similar threads
