Refugium help

[Jonandjo]

what do people put in there refugium.
I have just got a second tank in my garage. I have built the sump myself so I have a sizeable section for a refugium. I'm just curious as to what people put in. At the moment I have sand and rock oh and some mushrooms from my other tank.

 

[smh254]

I have live rock, sand, chaeto, mangrove and tons of pods.

 

[JAWS 32]

We custom made our fuge/sump too, so we have a 3ft fuge section in a 33long tank.. We run a cryptic fuge that only gets light from the room (so no macro algae down there). I have about a 1 1/2 in sand bed, about 25lbs LR, a mantis shrimp, a hitchhiking crab of unknown origin and my Starry Blenny, who will not stay in the DT. After numerous times of him going down the overflow box into the fuge, I just left him there. There are tons of copepods/amphipods in there as well.

 

[RedoubtReef]

an inch of sugar fine oolitic sand, rock and macro algae for me. will eventually add some snails as well but that's it.

 

[Steve Tobias]

In my sump I have sand live, live rock and red gracillaria. I have never had much success with chaeto. It yellows, dies out and then smells! I am sure it is my lighting below. The red gracillaria helps to reduce nitrates and excess nutrients, acts as a great host for pods and I grab a ball move it up to my display and the tangs love it! I have read the gracillaria (any macro algae they will eat) also helps build the tangs immune system. I found the red is my tang's favorite. My foxface, yellow and blue hippo devour it! Additionally, every time I add the gracillaria I am introducing more pods into my tank directly and EVERYBODY ELSE LOVES THAT! I let a bunch of the gracillaria move around the refugium and I keep a bunch in a breeder net/box.