Refugiums: Yay or Nay? - Page 4

albert_dao · #31 04-15-2016, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

Ya, it's definitely far from perfect

I struggle with growing Chaeto as my tangs seem to enjoy (consuming) it, immensely. Plus, I have a hard time finding Caulerpa around here. Seems no one wants to stock it anymore. Instead, I have to settle for bubble algae and film algae. The Miracle Mud is all under the live rock. It's only visible when you lift up any rock allowing the "mud" to escape all over the place clouding the entire refugium.

Get your act together Kien. The only thing that's going to fix this mess is a few new Acans. Thankfully, I know where you can get some.

soapy · #32 04-15-2016, 07:55 PM

My refugium currently houses a Yellow Clown Goby who prefers eating acroporas over any other food. He especially likes the delicate colourful acro's and eats those first. In the fuge he is on a strict diet of brownapora.

shiftline · #33 04-15-2016, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by soapy

My refugium currently houses a Yellow Clown Goby who prefers eating acroporas over any other food. He especially likes the delicate colourful acro's and eats those first. In the fuge he is on a strict diet of brownapora.

Sounds like he has good taste!

soapy · #34 04-15-2016, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by shiftline

Sounds like he has good taste!

Hah! Ok, he just got his name; Charlie.

Wonder if he tastes good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvgEqlFIn2o

Animal-Chin · #35 04-15-2016, 10:54 PM

I don't get it, Kiens fuge looks like a regular reeftank? Does Kien not know what a refugium is?

soapy · #36 04-17-2016, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

I vote YAY as well. For me, I run a 150 gallon refugium conveniently located over my sump. It has sand, live rock, dead coral rubble and grows pods, algaes, all the good stuff !

If you leave it empty they are a lot less maintenance and you will save electricity!

trilinearmipmap · #37 04-18-2016, 04:00 AM

Question for people with a chaeto fuge and running phosphate reactors:

Do you find that near-zero phosphate prevents your chaeto from growing, eliminating the benefits of nutrient export with chaetomorpha?

shiftline · #38 04-18-2016, 04:18 AM

I used chemipire blue in my old 30g and it ended up killing off my cheato. So I decided to jail use the chemipure as it was cheap and less hassle