whats in your refugium

[eldiablosrt8]

I am setting up my first refugium.... what do you have in yours, sand mud chaeto LR etc???

 

[xcaret]

Live rock, minimal sand, chaeto, some red macro from GM, mushrooms, a tiny sarco; think I have a small fish tank under the fish tank !!

 

[screebo]

I started with LR and Cheato with a few shrooms and zoas. A couple chocolate stars still reside there, prior food source for the Harlequins. Three proud mangroves, courtesy of JAR live on. No longer any Cheato and very little live rock. Just enough for the roots of the mangroves.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

chaetomorpha and turtle grass with 2" sandbeds. and peppermint shrimp

 

[tuberider]

A little Chaeto and whatever has grown there over time.

 

[mavjoy]

I used to have LR in my fuge before.

 

[Borchers]

Live, Macro Algae, Cheato, 2 inch bed of live sand and mud loaded with live foods and Micro stars.

 

[CookieJar]

a few small pieces of LR but otherwise just water, chaeto and a bunch of small critters.

 

[anathema]

Chaeto, sand, pods, mysis shrimp, a couple pieces of rock.


Oh and 17 fungia. Whoops.

 

[slim_jim989]

A big piece of LR, cheato, calulera prolifera, some Xenia a cronch so my trigger can't eat him
. and lots of pods

 

[Gonzo]

About 15 lbs or LR (with a maxi-jet pointed at to avoid debris build up), chaeto, skimmer, water pump. And jimmy hoffa

 

[eldiablosrt8]

I read somewhere you didn't want a ton of flow in your refugium is that true I see some of have flow in there besides in/out flow

 

[GreshamH]

Vikings!!!!


No wait, Capitol One?


Cheato and a snot load of little critters.... and water

 

[rygh]

I had some sort of odd growth in mine. Went away when I put water in.

From Aquarium_Release

 

[GreshamH]

Oh you shouldn't let those come in contact with water, especially after midnight.

 

[Plumstr8]

I read somewhere you didn't want a ton of flow in your refugium is that true I see some of have flow in there besides in/out flow

If you can, direct the water passing thru so that it makes a tumbling effect on the algea. (I used an extra baffle) You dont have to do that for it to work, but I did notice a major change in how fast the algea grows! I put in a small sandwich bag of chaeto, macro, and grapeweed. About four weeks later no more hair algea and my small bag of mixed algeas is about a 12" tumbling ball. Im using a 2-3" sand bed and a 5500k CF light form home depot with a cheap flood light reflector. Best part is its only 15watts and cost about $12 total

 

[gimmito]

Here's a pic of mine under the frag tank (Chaeto/gracialla & live rock...might add some sand):

 

[Sfork]

anyone try miracle mud?

 

[gimmito]

anyone try miracle mud?

Funny you should mention that. I contemplated using that for my setup since I have 2 ecosystem sumps. I remember reading The Reef Aquarium and the authors mentioning that similiar results could be met w/sand, etc. Plus its a hassle to change out the mud.

 

[miles405]

Deep sand bed, cheato, and a small piece of live rock.

Lots of critters in the cheato. I found a fire worm the other day and was able to pull out a couple inches of it. Now I am nervous about messing with the cheato.