Refugium Help

Bruce, if you have room underneath your tank, why not make a fuge out of a rubbermaid tub. It's cheap and it works! I am planning to make a bigger sump out of one or two, so I will have more backwash room. And no need for silicon or tool...just 1 smaller tub in a bigger one...add overflow, pump, lights, macroalgaes, and go!

 

that does nook nice, is there any way that i could put the power head inside the refugium so that i can make a sort of overflow to surface skim the main tank?

 

I would make a sump...but i cant drill my tank and im scared of siphon overflows...i hear they can be not so good...

 

How about a above tank fuge?

You can make a overflow like box in the tank and put a small PH in that box to draw water to your fuge and let it drain down to you MT. That way, it has some surface skimming too.

 

Im thinking of somthing like that...but its alot of calculations to make it so the overflow and the ph cancel each other out...i dont want the MT to over flow

 

Would somthing like this work? The arrows are only their for the name and do not refer to water movement

 

If you are referring to the USA Aquarium link I left for you, the two black elbows actually hang into your tank so that the return is by gravity just like GKW suggests. you could make an overflow box, put the PH in the overflow with one of the elbows in it and (look at the picture) run a piece of tubing through the elbow into one end of the Fuge. The other end will return by gravity. The elbows look to be 2 1/4 diameter so you will have no possibility of the fuge oveflowing unless you put a 4500 gph pump in there

Mike

Edit - Don't know if it was such a good idea pasting the actual picture from Ebay, so I'll just repost the link USA Aquarium hang-on fuge