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04-23-2006, 01:42 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
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Bruce, if you have room underneath your tank, why not make a fuge out of a rubbermaid tub. It's cheap and it works! I am planning to make a bigger sump out of one or two, so I will have more backwash room. And no need for silicon or tool...just 1 smaller tub in a bigger one...add overflow, pump, lights, macroalgaes, and go! 
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Started on Jan 24, cycled on Feb 17
125 gallons (72" x 18" x 22"), 20 gallons sump, 29 gallons fuge. 90 lbs sugar fine sand in MT and 30 in fuge.
Equipments:
Coralife Super Skimmer 220 w/ an air pump to increase micro bubbles, Mag drive 9.5 return pump
2 Maxi 900 and Rio+ 2100 as powerheads, Mag 350 filter
Lighting:
110watts PC, 70watts NO
Resident:
2 Polyps Ricordia
Royal Gramma, Lawnmower Blenny
Sally Light Foot
Pepermint Shrimp
70 Blue Leg Hermits
25 Snails | 
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04-23-2006, 01:44 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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that does nook nice, is there any way that i could put the power head inside the refugium so that i can make a sort of overflow to surface skim the main tank? _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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04-23-2006, 01:45 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
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I would make a sump...but i cant drill my tank and im scared of siphon overflows...i hear they can be not so good...  | |
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04-23-2006, 01:51 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
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How about a above tank fuge?
You can make a overflow like box in the tank and put a small PH in that box to draw water to your fuge and let it drain down to you MT. That way, it has some surface skimming too.
Last edited by gkw; 04-23-2006 at 02:04 PM.
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04-23-2006, 03:29 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
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Im thinking of somthing like that...but its alot of calculations to make it so the overflow and the ph cancel each other out...i dont want the MT to over flow | |
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04-23-2006, 03:52 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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Would somthing like this work?  The arrows are only their for the name and do not refer to water movement | |
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04-23-2006, 06:02 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Noblesville, IN,Indiana Age: 56
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Originally Posted by Bruce that does nook nice, is there any way that i could put the power head inside the refugium so that i can make a sort of overflow to surface skim the main tank? | If you are referring to the USA Aquarium link I left for you, the two black elbows actually hang into your tank so that the return is by gravity just like GKW suggests. you could make an overflow box, put the PH in the overflow with one of the elbows in it and (look at the picture) run a piece of tubing through the elbow into one end of the Fuge. The other end will return by gravity. The elbows look to be 2 1/4 diameter so you will have no possibility of the fuge oveflowing unless you put a 4500 gph pump in there 
Mike
Edit - Don't know if it was such a good idea pasting the actual picture from Ebay, so I'll just repost the link USA Aquarium hang-on fuge
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55 gal FOWLR, SeaClone 150 skimmer. 2" LS, 50# LR. 29Gal sump/fuge ViaAqua 2600 pump, chaeto, 1" sand, LR
2 Percula Clowns, Scissortail Goby, Black Birdwrasse, Keyhole angel, Lawnmower Blenny, | |
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