refugium

My fuge is about 2 weeks in the process. Sump has been running for months. Is this normal? Freaked me out lol.

I have a typical 3 chamber sump in my 70g frag tank and it is about 30 gal. 1st is return from tank with skimmer and it skims some nasty stuff but happy it does. 2nd is fuge with a light and some macro algae of different varieties. 3rd is the return the chambers overflow one to the other as...

Hi everyone, I'm currently using an old oceanic 20g sump that only has two compartments. One for the return pump and the other for everything else (this includes my skimmer, heater, some live rock, and carbon). I was thinking of trying to set up a refugium to grow some macroalgae with a...

So i did a recent upgrade from a 32biocube to a 40 Breeder. The old light I had for my refugium just isn’t going to cut it/turning the whole dinning room pink. So was looking into new lights to help contain the light. Was seeing if anyone had success with the biocube light as I can easily attach...

I am wanting to start my refugium on my Reefer 750 and am wondering if I should go with the Kessil H80 or H180 Tina Flora to grow chaeto. Any recommendations on determining what size light I should go with? thanks!

Biocube 29 I stuck some chaeto in the rear middle chamber intank fuge basket, cut up a 3 tube red blue and white led light fixture from Amazon. Grow Light for Indoor Plants, 198 LEDs Full Spectrum LED Grow Light Normally you can only light up the red + blue or the white but not all strings...

I have a bashsea smart series sump. I’ve been debating whether I want to do Refugium or skimmer first. What is everyone’s opinion and why? If I do the Refugium first do I still use filter socks?

Ok so i just got my new Fiji cube 57 gallon complete set up. My issue is what to do about the refugium. I’m going to get 2 AI Prime HD 16 lights and a VerioS-2 return pump. I have a Tunze ATO from prev tank. Will be using some bio media under the filter floss but after that I have no clue...

Good afternoon! I had a quick question can i add my skimmer to my fuge separated by egg crate and maybe some foam? i had another thread and a helpful user gave me this idea. I have a waterbox marine 110.5 stock sump. I’m not worried about water level or micro bubbles since the return pump is in...

Anyone know what this is growing in my refugium?

Hi all, I recently replaced the chaeto refugium in my sump with an algae scrubber. This also means I removed my grow light from the sump as well. I have dosed copepods a couple of times but have become more interesting in trying to keep a better population in my system. Without having that...

Hi everyone! I need some advice and this is the best place in the world for high quality reef advice, so please bear with me and thanks in advance for your help! Basically I was skimmerless for a couple of weeks after removing my previous skimmer to prepare the sump for a skimmer upgrade and...

Like the title says, how to incorporate a refugium into an Eshopps RS-75 sump with a HOB aquamaxx protein skimmer? I was thinking of putting the hob protein skimmer in the entrance of the middle chamber, and then either placing walls of sponge filters I have extra from my unused canister filter...

So I’ve been thinking a little about this with my establishing a feeding regimen for corals. It makes sense to start a tank of with a skimmer while you have fish and while building maturity, but once you get to that point, wouldn’t the space be better utilized to make the refugium larger? In...

I have been reading for months at this point. Now that I am in the home stretch awaiting tank delivery, I cannot really procrastinate any longer and am thus starting my build thread. I had a 30 gallon LPS tank about 15 years ago at this point, and it would be fair to say I did a mediocre job at...

Planning a 75 gallon DIY sump. Wanting the first chamber to hold the skimmer and media, second to be a large refugium, and third to be a return with variable water height. I would like the refugium water level to be as high up as possible while chamber one is about 7-8in. Any ideas on how to set...

I’m looking for a way to potentially grow chaeto in the rear middle chamber of my AIO Waterbox Peninsula 15 gallon. After searching for submersible lights and not finding many small options, I’m considering DIY. After finding some YouTube inspiration, I have a prototype. I purchased a cheap $7...

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I set up my waterbox reef 130.4 two month ago. I was using a breeder box as refugium and it was working until the chaeto grow from a tennis ball to a football, so today I just bought egg crate to create a baffle to keep all chaeto and skimmer apart and some PVC pipe glued on another piece of egg...

So I've had my tank up for nearly 2 years. My refugium has been incredibly hit and miss. I read posts about people needing to harvest weekly or byweekly. I think i've actually trimmed my cheato maybe twice in its life span. I started my cheato in a eggcrate box which I flip every other day...

So I have a 55 gal reef tank and I was wondering if a 10 gal refugium would be enough for it? I want to fit a skimmer, sump, and chaeto. If it is good enough does anyone have any ideas on which equipment to get for it and maybe explain how to do it? I’m new to the hobby and only have hang on...

I recently created a chaeto reactor for my Biocube. The chaeto is just starting to grow and has made me more comfortable feeding my fish and adding more to my tank. I currently have the lighting 12/12hr opposite the lighting of my display tank. It has been so efficient at reducing nutrients that...

This might sound stupid, but would it be possible to raise and breed brine shrimp in my refugium? The water parameters required by brine shrimp seem to line up with those in my marine system, I dose phytoplankton (Kent Marine PhytoPlex) four times a week, and my refugium is well sheltered with...

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8xXRwGU/ The video clip above is the most recent shot of the 40 breeder that I just cycled and I’m now adding live stock. I will be getting a decent amount of corals in a little less than a week! Can’t wait!! A lot of diy work went into this setup I had some ai primes...

Hello, I have been running my primarily SPS 100G tank for about 5 1/2 years. I have had a lot of ups and downs but I am fairly happy with the tank. However over that time I have battled different forms of algae. And in the last probably 6-12 months I have started noticing new types of algae that...