65g reef - Page 4

Mik_101 · #31 09-09-2007, 07:03 AM

Hey melina its looking realy good. Keep us updated.

skylord · #32 09-09-2007, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

...... there is this stuff that looks like corrugated cardboard, but it's a lightweight plastic. .........The best part is, if you decide you don't like it, you can take it off and replace it with something else.

I think you are refering to Coroplast.

Scott

0sprey · #33 09-10-2007, 11:39 PM

Your rock will come alive, not to worry. It just takes a little while for the critters that have survived to multiply. With good lighting, a little food, and clean water, the rocks will surprise you with the different lifeforms that sprout. I have had my rock for almost a year, and just recently discovered a black limpet, living undetected all that time (too bad the miserable peon decided to eat my GSP... he was kinda pretty until I peeled him off the rocks). Eggs, algae spores, etc, will sprout after a long time.
I would expect the first visible signs to be bristleworms and aiptasia... but then you might start to find pods, tubeworms, and various macroalgaes, most of which are fun. If you see a choice bit of rock in the store with dusters or something else hardy you want, buy it. The lifeforms on that rock will spread through the tank.

Melina · #34 09-11-2007, 11:13 PM

OK people, need some advice! We want to add a refugium. To have it beside the tank. We have no idea how to plumb it in. Any advice/ideas? Any links to suggest?

Redrover · #35 09-11-2007, 11:58 PM

My Refugium is integrated with the Sump which I believe is the way to go.
The big thing would be room...I've seen them on the outside of the main tank.

I had Marc [ SuperFudge ] build mine, great workmanship

Melina · #36 09-12-2007, 12:10 AM

Is it possible to have it on a table beside, and at the same height as, the main display?

0sprey · #37 09-12-2007, 12:30 AM

Better still to have the water level elevated above the main tank. Split the return line from the pump, run some of it into the fuge, then run the overflow (drilled into the side) into the main tank. Refugiums located above the tank are supposed to be the best possible source of pods.
This is all theory. My fuge is in-line with the sump, as well.

Redrover · #38 09-12-2007, 12:54 AM

Supply line to refugium from left to right...Fingers back of refugium is where it makes an exit back to the sump...I have 4 Seahorses which should be fed a number of time a day...I get enought pods to feed their hunger, that I only feed once a day

Melina · #39 09-12-2007, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Redrover

Supply line to refugium from left to right...Fingers back of refugium is where it makes an exit back to the sump...I have 4 Seahorses which should be fed a number of time a day...I get enought pods to feed their hunger, that I only feed once a day

This will not work with our set up, no room beside sump. Can't put it above main display either. We would like to set it up on a table beside the main display. Will this work?

Redrover · #40 09-12-2007, 04:14 AM

Google: Type in refugium setup...building a refugium by Stan Hauter
Great info and diagrams on different setups