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04-16-2007, 07:17 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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|  How much flow for my Refugium?/I'm getting a fish room.
I found out that I got my new place(4bed room, 2bath, and 600sqFt of unfinished basement). So you know what that means FISH ROOM. I have a extra 40bdr in my basement right now I think I wanna set it up as a gravity return Refugium. My question is how much flow should I be directing up their? _________ Senior Noob Setting my 75 back up soon Main SW Tank:
55gal, 70LBS of Tonga/LFSDIY, 50lbs LS, 1x250watt MH(20k), AquaC Remora Skimmer Live stock: Velvet Damsel, (12)Blue legged crab, lawnmower blenny, (1)cleaner shrimp, Yellow Tang, Featherduster CoralsRandom Zoo's(like 10), more zoo's,red mushrooms and hairy mushrooms, Sinularia | 
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04-17-2007, 01:44 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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I always set my refugiums size by the system its going to support I use the 10% method I try to keep my refugiums total volume at 10% to the main system then ,I flow 10% of the fuges total volume through the fugh per Hr. Been using this method for better part of 25 yrs with first algae scrubbers then I used it as a base starting point for the refugiums when we first started to bring them along and its the best combination I could find so I keep using it..
I see guys now putting 100 gallon refugiums on 50 gallon main systems LOL and then now I see idiots starting to spout the need to pre filter and even most recently to even skim the the water before sending it to the plants in the old swamp LOL. Aquarium Gods just can't stand simple LOL _________ 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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04-17-2007, 07:00 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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I mainly want to add more volume to my system. | |
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04-17-2007, 07:01 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Originally Posted by Tangster  Aquarium Gods just can't stand simple LOL | Man, isn't that the truth! 
I have a home made 10 gal fuge on my 110, and flow about 180gph of raw unfiltered water through it. It seems to do the job very nicely. I literally have to prune back the macros weekly, so I assume they are doing their job. I've NEVER had even the tiniest bit of detectable Nitrates. | |
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04-17-2007, 08:46 AM
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| | Bikers are a dying breed!
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Originally Posted by Urban_s I mainly want to add more volume to my system. | Then add a large sump! _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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04-17-2007, 09:02 AM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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But anything bigger won't fit under my stand.
Last edited by Urban_s; 04-17-2007 at 09:56 AM.
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04-17-2007, 11:18 AM
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| | Bikers are a dying breed!
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Originally Posted by Urban_s But anything bigger won't fit under my stand. | I thought in your post you said you was getting a fish room....  Put the sump in there and not under the tank. I have a 75 gal sump with 30 gal fuge set in a closet next to my tank. The only thing that is under the tank is the closed loop OM valve and two pumps. | |
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04-17-2007, 12:54 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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True. Dur. For somereason I got it stuck in my head that a sump has to be below the tank. | |
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