New setup

[clowntang]

I setting up a new 2ft marine tank. Can anyone advise how to setup sump & refugium together and also what are the items needs to be in the sump and refugium?

[jd_n]

I setting up a new 2ft marine tank. Can anyone advise how to setup sump & refugium together and also what are the items needs to be in the sump and refugium?

Read thru the pinned thread above in this New to the Marine Aquaria Hobby section. U shd get wat u want.

[clowntang]

I have read the pinned article but it did not mentioned what things to put in the sump and the sequence? Can you advise?

[delirium]

Basically its up to you what you wanna put in your sump. Some grow macro algae, some put LR while some keep fishes so will not be eaten by larger fishes in the display tank.

[hammy]

yup , actually it depend on what u wanna put inside the tank

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as for the tank i divided it into thre compartment

the first compartment is where the water flow down from my i box to a filter pad removing the bigger debrius then go down to the bio filteration where i put in my biohomes..

the second compartment is where my FUGE is ... i put microalgae and some live rock to absorb the excess nutrient and maybe lower down the nitrate too... then not much algae growth in the main tank....or ya i put my prizm skimmer and temp reading indicator there too... my seachem ammonia reading kit ...basically all the artificial stuff that u dun wanna display it in the main tank....

the third compartment is where i put my return pump ... this space is where i drained my ten percent water for water change every week ....whatever addictive i put in, i put into this compartment then the return pump will deliver all the addictive to my main tank ....

overall the sump and FUGE have a numbers of advantages.... will post pic in for u as my sump ###### FUGE is 2 feet too ...but now lazy to take pic ... sorry ar

my 2 cents...

[hammy]

and of course the light for the macroalgae hee , left out such a impt detail.

and if u are thinking where to get the sump ###### FUGE tank , u can pm mi as i dunno whether can reveal the name of the lfs a not

actually i have a lot of qn on sump and FUGE last time too , but a lot of friendly reefers help mi along the way and i think it is impt to pass on the knowledge ....

hammy

[clowntang]

Hammy,

Thanks for your Info. By the way what do you mean by biohomes? For the refugium do I need a DSB besides the LR and the macro algae? Can I place the the phosphate remover product (e.g Phosguard or ROWA) in the first compartment of the sump?

[hammy]

for the first compartment u can basically put anything u want ...

okie biohome is a type of sintered glass and function as a biological filter... it is best to put them at the final stage of the filter, they home our valuable aerobic and anaerobic bacteria ...

yes for the first compartmen right, i 'll advice u to put ROWAphos ,phosguard not too sure as never use before ...

DSB is one of the way to lower nitrate and personally i have a DSB in my FUGE and it is working well , i will advice u to have at least 5' for that ....

biohome can be bought almost at any good lfs,so should be no prob getting them ...