Lunatik's homemade refugium

[lunatik_69]

Originally Posted by Bogie

Sweet refugium. Nice plumbing work Luna. When I do mine, you gotta tell me where to get some mangroves.

Thanks buddy

[wastemanagement]

Nice plumbing job!, I also was under the impression that mangroves do best with high water flow. I like the bio- ball infront of the outlet too good idea!

[lunatik_69]

Originally Posted by wastemanagement

Nice plumbing job!, I also was under the impression that mangroves do best with high water flow. I like the bio- ball infront of the outlet too good idea!

Thanks, well this is my first refugium so Im still working out the kinks. Luna

[missionsix66]

I like the fuge luna! Looks like it came out pretty nice.

[wildreef]

Nice, but wuld really like some "light" with it, ( hard to see every thing )
You have a great knack for packing every thing into a little space.

[lunatik_69]

Thanks guys, LOL knack? Thats called working with what you got and making it work for you. LMAO Luna

P.S. The funny thing about it is, that the "tank" itself cost $6. The most expensive item was the light, even thou I could have gone getto all the way with this project.

[wildreef]

Originally Posted by lunatik_69

Thanks guys, LOL knack? Thats called working with what you got and making it work for you. LMAO Luna

P.S. The funny thing about it is, that the "tank" itself cost $6. The most expensive item was the light, even thou I could have gone getto all the way with this project.

Going """Ghetto""" is one thing and being "inovative" is quite another ( which is the one you chose do to.)
Clean/neat and the desire to keep every thing in order.

[lunatik_69]

Originally Posted by wildreef

Going """Ghetto""" is one thing and being "inovative" is quite another ( which is the one you chose do to.)
Clean/neat and the desire to keep every thing in order.

Thank you for those kind words. For me its still getto b/c I wanted to go with a real tank and not the rubbermaid container. But if it works, than even better. Luna

[cuttingras]

Luna..It's AWESOME! You really gave me a good idea of what mine is going to finally look like. I love the thing you did with the p.s. and the air pump. Looks like it's working great and it''s probalby adding a lot of good oxygenated water to the tank. What kind of pump are you using to get it back to the tank? And also what is the diameter of your overflow tube? I'm stuck there. I love the mangroves. At the aquarium, the mangroves were not in rushing water, they infact were in water that was pretty still. It only moved when the wave maker pushed some into the little pools. They also told me the mangroves will each have one yellow leaf. That leaf is the one that is absorbing the salt so the rest of the plant will be healthy, so if you have aleaf yellow, leave it, it's supposed to be that way!


Karam for a GOOD JOB DUDE!

[lunatik_69]

Originally Posted by cuttingras

Luna..It's AWESOME! You really gave me a good idea of what mine is going to finally look like. I love the thing you did with the p.s. and the air pump. Looks like it's working great and it''s probalby adding a lot of good oxygenated water to the tank. What kind of pump are you using to get it back to the tank? And also what is the diameter of your overflow tube? I'm stuck there. I love the mangroves. At the aquarium, the mangroves were not in rushing water, they infact were in water that was pretty still. It only moved when the wave maker pushed some into the little pools. They also told me the mangroves will each have one yellow leaf. That leaf is the one that is absorbing the salt so the rest of the plant will be healthy, so if you have aleaf yellow, leave it, it's supposed to be that way!


Karam for a GOOD JOB DUDE!

Thanks Linda, the only return pump that I have is a Magdrive 18. I dont have a return pump on the refugium. That was the main idea of this project. I didnt want another pump to plug in. Its all gravity feed and drained. I put a 1" bulkhead for the drain back into the sump. All my drains are 1" . Luna