I got back in after having a 60 gal with a hang on refugium a few years back now I have a 220 with a 56x12x14.5 sump pre made for a swim tank. I really want to have a refugium so im willing to scrape out the baffles and redo them myself.
here is the current set up
and mind the horrible lines and writing my idea for the new.....
as for the key on this
yellow - my guess of the current water level if I changed nothing
blue - current set up with return, siphon and where the equipment would go
green - total removal
red - my idea of having four compartments, left to right. left would be the siphon with socks, then baffles for water bubbles, then protein skimmer, heater, a baffle then the return, another baffle that will allow 8 inches in the refugium and last the refugium with a low flow siphon outlet. also I would use Herbie flow and check valves and raise the whole water level to 6 inches so I could have more volume of water than the current setup that I would guess would only be about 4 inches
here is the current set up
and mind the horrible lines and writing my idea for the new.....
as for the key on this
yellow - my guess of the current water level if I changed nothing
blue - current set up with return, siphon and where the equipment would go
green - total removal
red - my idea of having four compartments, left to right. left would be the siphon with socks, then baffles for water bubbles, then protein skimmer, heater, a baffle then the return, another baffle that will allow 8 inches in the refugium and last the refugium with a low flow siphon outlet. also I would use Herbie flow and check valves and raise the whole water level to 6 inches so I could have more volume of water than the current setup that I would guess would only be about 4 inches