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Electric eel 10-02-2007 02:07 AM

Lights in sump?
 
hello
I read about lights for your sump. This is news to me can someone explain the benifits.
Thanks

honkey sauce 10-02-2007 02:10 AM

makes it brighter

fishface 10-02-2007 02:12 AM

if you have macro in there it helps to keep it alive. also, easier to see what's a-goin' in down der!

Electric eel 10-02-2007 02:18 AM

I have just added some live rock should the light be bright enough to benifit it? I get the brighter thing!:lol:

fishface 10-02-2007 02:25 AM

if there's nothing that's photosynthetic then you don't really need a light. live rock for instance doesn't need light, macro does. refugium and sump are sometimes terms that are used interchangably...sump's are mostly just a place to exchange water, keep skimmers, probes, auto top off's etc. refugiums have macro, live rock, critters, low light corals...whatever you want. it's a place where no peretitors can eat copepods, hence the name reufug-ium.

Electric eel 10-02-2007 02:48 AM

Thank you for the explanation. So it is beneficial to add lights to my sump?

fishface 10-02-2007 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Electric eel (Post 274485)
Thank you for the explanation. So it is beneficial to add lights to my sump?

:lol: is there anything on your live rock you wanna keep alive other than pods? then no...

honkey sauce 10-02-2007 03:49 AM

your better off having a propperly light refugium and leaving your sump for your equipment.Your refugium can then be over- flowed to your main
system then.Otherwise you will be having a skimmer and main pump in your fuge.Not good IMO

Redrover 10-02-2007 08:38 AM

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