PB_Smith
Aquarium Advice Addict
A while back I decided to try for an over-the-tank refugium and fashioned one from Tupperware containers. It worked pretty darn well so after a couple months I found a guy on Amazon, Steve at WindRiderCreations, who does acrylic sump kits and other things and contacted him and he made me my little fuge/display. It is 30" L x 6"W x 9" H and holds about 5.5 gallons.
I now have it all setup and running;
it sits on a shelf that is tied to the main stand and the height is flush with the LED canopy for the display.
Here is how it is plumbed from the main tank. I have a Cobalt aquatics in-line pump in the display pumping ~230 gph through the fuge. I used a plastic tube as an overflow and filled it with rubble and I have the flow rate so it pulls just enough air down to act like a mini wet/dry setup.
I have about 12 lbs of oolite sand and 4 lbs of Fiji Mud & around 10lbs or aragonite rubble in there and seeded it with about 6000 pods of various types. The pods are thriving in there. Trying to see if I get any type of DSB benefit from sand bed. Supposedly with oolite 3" is enough.
for lighting I am using a 30" Finnex Stingray light and so far so good. I added some after market heat sinks to it and have a fan exhausting the air out of the canopy.
This is how the whole kit & caboodle looks
(excuse the glare and cruddy scaping, have another 20lbs of rock and rubble coming this week, so the scape is temporary.)
I have two fish in there as well, a very shy clown goby who hides in the folds of the sea lettuce algae and just got this little guy two days ago;
He is absolutely lovin' the pods in there, thinking about going back and gettin' him a girlfriend.
Noticed a cool thing with this guy, but have yet to capture it on camera,
he blows smoke rings.
When he is looking for pods in the silt and he expels it out his gills, it makes little rings, it looks totally awesome.
I now have it all setup and running;
it sits on a shelf that is tied to the main stand and the height is flush with the LED canopy for the display.
Here is how it is plumbed from the main tank. I have a Cobalt aquatics in-line pump in the display pumping ~230 gph through the fuge. I used a plastic tube as an overflow and filled it with rubble and I have the flow rate so it pulls just enough air down to act like a mini wet/dry setup.
I have about 12 lbs of oolite sand and 4 lbs of Fiji Mud & around 10lbs or aragonite rubble in there and seeded it with about 6000 pods of various types. The pods are thriving in there. Trying to see if I get any type of DSB benefit from sand bed. Supposedly with oolite 3" is enough.
for lighting I am using a 30" Finnex Stingray light and so far so good. I added some after market heat sinks to it and have a fan exhausting the air out of the canopy.
This is how the whole kit & caboodle looks
(excuse the glare and cruddy scaping, have another 20lbs of rock and rubble coming this week, so the scape is temporary.)
I have two fish in there as well, a very shy clown goby who hides in the folds of the sea lettuce algae and just got this little guy two days ago;
He is absolutely lovin' the pods in there, thinking about going back and gettin' him a girlfriend.
Noticed a cool thing with this guy, but have yet to capture it on camera,
he blows smoke rings.
When he is looking for pods in the silt and he expels it out his gills, it makes little rings, it looks totally awesome.