refugium build

yea, i have an over flow box that feeds the wet dry system then a 900gph sump

 

The easiest way is to place your refugium next to your sump, but a little higher. T off your feed to your sump and put a ball valve in it to control flow to refugium. Then have an overflow, or have a bulkhead from your refugium back to your sump.

I will try to find a drawing to explain it better.



One better. Here is a link to luna's refugium.

http://www.3reef.com/forums/refugium/lunatiks-homemade-refugium-48479.html

 

thats cool, so i should get a nother over flow box to goto the refuge then have the sumps sucking out of the filter and the fuge but on the fuge side have a ball valve?
oooorrrrr! should i T off of the over flow box i have now?

 

thats cool, so i should get a nother over flow box to goto the refuge then have the sumps sucking out of the filter and the fuge but on the fuge side have a ball valve?
oooorrrrr! should i T off of the over flow box i have now?

 

Forgot the part about the light..Thanks! When you get a light, you want to have close to the same amt. of watts p.g... some will ay no for this, but I know my chaeto didn't start to really grow until I added a better light, which wasn't really much better, but it worked. I had a 36" pc fixture. 4x96, if I remember correctly.

 

This thread had some pretty good designs. You could also look up sump refugium and look through old threads. There are some pretty good designs out there. 3reef.com...one stop shopping;D

http://www.3reef.com/forums/refugium/sump-design-52369.html

 

***learning a lot from this thread*** This can all be so confusing to a new hobbyists, such as myself... threads like this that break everything down to the basics are so grateful to have around!

 

so what im thinking is getting a 10g tank, putting some mud and sand down... rock....mangroves... other fuge stuff.... and having a little over flow box go down to it, and having the pump from my wet dry pump from the wet dry and my fuge... will that work?

 

Not sure I follow your plumbing path here. Can you draw a diagram.

 

yea ill draw it 2night and post it for ya guys... i changed the way i wanna do it anyways lol