help with plumbing refuge

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  1. brentburton9

    brentburton9 Plankton

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    Hello all!!! I was wanting to set up a 10g refugium right next to and level with my 75g display tank. My sump will be feeding the refugium, but I was wandering how to plumb to the display tank. Could I use a j tube and siphon the water into the display? kinda like an overflow box. Any assistance or input would be greatly appreciated.
     
    brentburton9, Sep 3, 2005
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  2. kb.bear

    kb.bear Peppermint Shrimp

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    You could but if the j tube gets pluged, by a snail, it could overflow the fuge.
    My hang on fuge has a 2" bulkhead and the ocasional turbo can realy slow down flow.
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  3. brentburton9

    brentburton9 Plankton

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    thanx kb bear, never thought of that. I may just build a shelf above and do a gravity feed
     
    brentburton9, Sep 4, 2005
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  4. steve414

    steve414 Astrea Snail

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    look at the sumps page made it so it can fit into the sand with out moving the tank. each side is 14 by 15 1/2. with pvc 3" bluk heads. works great. its going to get a aqua c 180 too my tank is 75 mixreef
     
    steve414, Nov 8, 2005
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