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04-04-2008, 01:09 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
Posts: 185
|  Crazy idea, but it just might work?
Here's the plan du jour- I want to set up a sump/fuge for the 29, but can't spend tons of dough right now. I was thinking of getting an AGA 10 with light hood (on the night channel from main lights), dropping a small 1-5 gal plastic bucket in for fuge.
Move the HOB skimmer to sump, move heater to sump, move 550gph powerhead to sump and plumb 1/2" return.
a small bit of new plain sand seeded with some existing live from the tank, some California-safe macro if I can find it.
It's not a perfect idea, but I figure I'll only be out $20 or so if it doesn't work.
Disaster waiting to happen?
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04-04-2008, 01:11 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,033
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i made my fuge out of a rubbermade garbage bucket. All is fine. _________  | |
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04-04-2008, 01:17 PM
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| | Ocellaris Clown
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sun River,Oregon (Bend) Age: 34
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I think it will work and you'll find out if it doesn't. Part of the fun of a refugium is building it. It's trial and error. If you build one and it works you'll probably never buy a sump or a fuge. If it doesn't work you'll figure out why and fix or build differently in the future. | 
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04-04-2008, 01:29 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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a fuge is so simple its not even funny. a box, with slow water movement, some light and maybe some sand. thats all it needs to be. | |
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04-04-2008, 01:30 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
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That sounds like like the sump/fuge I have for my 20H, GeejEx. I took a small plastic garbage can and stuck it in the middle of a 10 gallon tank, put a few inches of Wally-World cat litter, some LR rubble and a wad of cheato in it and called a fuge. It's a tight squeeze, but it gives be at least 5 more gallons of water, a deeper sand bed, some macro and some place to get y skimmer and heater out of my display.
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20 High (started 5/18/06)
20 lbs live rock and 3" sand bed - Remora w/ MJ1200 & Prefilter - 10 gallon sump/fuge - MAG7 & SCWD return - 65W 10,000K PC - 15W Actinic - Red-legged Hermits - Cerith Snails - Nassarius Snails - Royal Gramma - 6line Wrasse - Maroon Clown - Wheeler's Goby - Bubble-Tip Anemone - Green Star Polyp - Button Polyps - Frilly Brown Mushroom - Green Bullseye Mushroom - Kenya Tree Coral | |
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04-04-2008, 01:35 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
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I wish I knew how to imbed that pic properly...hope it helps a bit... | |
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04-04-2008, 01:35 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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This is my over-simple fuge made from $10 worth of stuff from Home deopt and no modifications were made to main tank. works great. well, theres a light on it now........  | |
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04-04-2008, 01:37 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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there ya go pisces  | |
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04-04-2008, 01:37 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: May 2006 Location: CT Age: 29
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And actually, I ended up moving the return to the far side of the ghetto-fuge (as I fondly call it). My Remora and heater are in the same area as the inflow bubble-tower... | |
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04-04-2008, 01:39 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 3,667
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Why do people feel they have to spend a ton of money on this stuff is . People just seem to think the more it cost the better it looks and it has to work better.. All I See is you will need a overflow box to supply the sump. My bugs and plants could not care less as to what is holding the water just so long as it holds is their major and only concern and mine also.. (: Sounds like a solid plan to me.. Even baffles I have yet figured out what they are needed for ? I have never used anything but a old open tank or tub of some type.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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