Your 'fuge substrate: liverock, liverock rubble, DSB, mineral/miracle mud, or combo?

[cherubfish pair]

Your 'fuge substrate: liverock, liverock rubble, DSB, mineral/miracle mud, or combo?

Feel free to also tell us what else is in your refugium; plants, microfauna, inverts, etc., etc.


I adjusted the spelling cattleman...good luck with the poll! - PR

 

[McCrary]

I have a 6" RDSB in the fuge with liverock on top and Caulerpa, Chaeto and a red macro that seems to form sheets.

 

[hrstrnr]

I have a DSB and LR with a Chaeto fuge

 

[scrmbld33]

chaeto and rock rubble in mine, also a few hermits and crabs (bad hitchhikers)

 

[Bono]

Barebottom with cheato here.

 

[Misled]

Mine is set up like a small tank. 4" sandbed, rubble rock, snails, crabs, feather calerpa and red gracilaria. Also a 3/4 in Springeri dottiback that's awaiting his new home.

 

[Navyblue]

I wonder if 0.5-1" piece of coral seeded with liverock is a good idea for pod propagation?

Would it be a nitrate factory?

 

[RedEyeElf]

DSB of Mineral Mud, with Chaeto and some fun red macro that looks like flames, oh and Go, my Sexy shrimp

 

[old salty]

Right now, it's 1.5 inches of Miracle Mud with chaeto, and culerpa. In another year, it will be live rock and chaeto.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Mines barebottom.

 

[Reefcherie]

[moved]

 

[graveyardworm]

Is the Invertebrate forum really the correct place for a refugium substrate poll/thread? I would think general discussion, or marine plants.

Anyhow, mine is 35g fuge. Shallow sand bed (southdown), one big piece of LR about 15 lbs. With cheato, several species of caulerpa, Scinaia sp., Botryocladia sp., and Halimeda.

 

[Tunguska]

DSB/rubble, live rock, cheato, ulva, some caulerpa that looks like blades of grass. All of this regularly grows to make a green brick in the 55 refuge.

 

[cherubfish pair]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9079689#post9079689 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by graveyardworm
Is the Invertebrate forum really the correct place for a refugium substrate poll/thread? I would think general discussion, or marine plants.

Because refugiums are ideal places for pods and microfauna and I'm curious as to what type of substrate supports these most.