Biocube 32 filtration ideas

[Avictus]

Hello Everyone!

I'm looking for some input with a future filtration upgrade to my biocube 32 which has been established now for a few months.

Currently I have a Coralife 29 skimmer in chamber one;
Chamber two has the In-Tank media basket with filter floss at the top, purigen in the middle, and chemi-pure elite at the bottom;
Chamber three just has be return pump.

I've read so much about the benefits of using the other half of chamber 2 as a refugium. Before I buy though, just wanted to put this out there and get some opinions.

I'm looking to get the In-Tank refugium basket, place some Chaeto Algae in there with a light on a reverse light cycle. My concern is the flow opening into chamber three is at the bottom. I worry that the water wouldn't necessary flow through the refugium, but pass under it and maybe swirl it about some bit.

Has anyone else done this or something similiar and had luck with it?

 

[hdsoftail1065]

I'm doing something similar. Heater and coralife skimmer in the first (quit using the skimmer for now) I didn' recognize any big benifits, my weekly 10% water changes seem to be keeping everything in line. Stock media basket, poly pad on top, chemi pure on the 2nd and cheato in the 3rd with a light taped to the back. It's doing fine for us.

 

[Retro Reefer]

Don’t need anything fancy for the Biocube just run it as is and the little skimmer is ok but a pain to keep operating effectively so mine is off line most of the time.

 

[S.Pepper]

Hello Everyone!

I'm looking for some input with a future filtration upgrade to my biocube 32 which has been established now for a few months.

Currently I have a Coralife 29 skimmer in chamber one;
Chamber two has the In-Tank media basket with filter floss at the top, purigen in the middle, and chemi-pure elite at the bottom;
Chamber three just has be return pump.

I've read so much about the benefits of using the other half of chamber 2 as a refugium. Before I buy though, just wanted to put this out there and get some opinions.

I'm looking to get the In-Tank refugium basket, place some Chaeto Algae in there with a light on a reverse light cycle. My concern is the flow opening into chamber three is at the bottom. I worry that the water wouldn't necessary flow through the refugium, but pass under it and maybe swirl it about some bit.

Has anyone else done this or something similiar and had luck with it?

I was thinking of doing the exact same thing. Did you end up going thru with this set-up? And how did it work?

 

[Avictus]

I was thinking of doing the exact same thing. Did you end up going thru with this set-up? And how did it work?

Hello!

So sorry for the very late response. I did go with this filtration method and it worked great. Fish were happy and thriving. I'm setting it up again (I moved twice since this post) in the same fashion however I'm going exclude the skimmer. It wasn't collecting much of anything. 10% water changes were adequate. I'm also putting some live rock in the refugium and will be cultivating copepods for a month prior to adding any fish.

 

[themcnertney]

Don’t need anything fancy for the Biocube just run it as is and the little skimmer is ok but a pain to keep operating effectively so mine is off line most of the time.

I do the same in mine. I tried a couple different skimmers and decided to forget that. I just placed a bunch of broken live rock back there. I also run a couple sponges, one at the exit of the first chamber to the middle and another on the inlet of the return pump.

Water changes are my filtration.