Refugium

[mafia]

Hey all,

currently i have a 75g and a 55g marine tank!.....both about 3 months old!......all stabilize and the 75 has some corals in there.

Just 2 days ago i manage to buy one second hand(4mths old) 6ftX2ftX2ft with sump of 36"X15"X15"(35g).

So now planning to convert that tank to Marine.

I did get some opinion and found that the sump is too small. So now i wanna convert the sump to a 75g.

At this moment, my tanks are running on DSB of 5". So i'm planning to put in about 2"(can i go lower?) in my main tank and about 5" in my sump as the refugium.

pls advise me on how do i go about setting up this giant!!

i want it to be a success!

thx in advance

[shiraz]

6" DSB of grade 0 sand would be great...

[CKS]

DSB work best at the display tank..where most of the solid waste will be accumilated... swallow sandbed in the sump is enu to turn it into food producing refug

[terryansimon]

or you can be like me. have two DSBs. one in main tank and one in sump. although I doubt the one in my main tank is thick enough. hahaha.

[CKS]

or u can try Mineral Mud from CaribSea .. and tell use if it really does what the manifacturer claimed!! looking for someone to evaluvate it..heh

[mafia]

thx guys.....so i need at least 4" of DSB in my main tank and another 6" of sand in my sump???

after calculation, my sump will have a refugium space of 24"X18"X18". is it enough??

[mafia]

or u can try Mineral Mud from CaribSea .. and tell use if it really does what the manifacturer claimed!! looking for someone to evaluvate it..heh

i got lots of live sand from my current tank oledi. so i doubt will be buying any at the moment.

[CKS]

so ur DSB will have a footprint size of 24"X18"X18" ??

thats too small...there're wiser way to use those space

[dradttg]

How do you intend to pump water from your refugium to your main tank.

I heard recently that if you use a pump to pump water back into the main tank, all the macro algae will be killed.

[CKS]

all the macroalgae will die?

hm..this is new

can u hook me up the that post?

[mafia]

ive decided after all the arguments about DSB, i'm goin for it.

putting 4" of DSB-livesand in my main tank 72"X24"X24"

and another 4" in my sump 24"X15"

the sump will have 3 partitian....with 3 baffles

first chamber, water from tank comes in where the skimmer(weilpro) wil be fitted. second chamber, refugium. third chamber, submergeble pump for return.

Drad, never heard of that pump kills microalgae. how else u push the water up??

[terryansimon]

maybe the school of thought is that the microalgae gets sloshed around and have their senses beaten out of them in the pump itself. I've heard such school of thoughts before. (=