New to refugiums

[dacookster]

Yah, when you see the display setups at the LFS, they sure look untamed to say the least. I'm just concerned about my dino/brown algae outbreak. Do I just let it balance out? I'm getting tired of syphoning cyano every three days and I'm going on a holiday at the end of May, and don't want someone to do anything other than feed the livestock. I have no close friends or relatives that know anything about aquatics, so teaching someone to feed my fish is as far as I'm willing to go. Plus, my setup is so small and sensitive that a single mistake in a water change would be disasterous. Hopefully the refugium does add some value to my system. So far everything I've done is more for the learning process than trying to achieve real success. I'm practicing for a custom 125G thats in the works.