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Thanks team! I appreciate all the advice :)

Thanks Joe! Actually good point I should get my hospital tank up and running just in case they need to emergency Transfer for some reason

That's very clean!

Hahahahaha

It's like how if you compress a hose pipe, the water flows out faster because it has a narrower area to fit the same amount of water through. Refugium is the opposite

Yeah so the water flow or volume of water through is dictated by the pump, and the refugium has the same volume of water moving through it but the speed is much slower. The water velocity in that area is slow. That's because the refugium area has like a water fall into it that is much WIDER...

That would be ideal! But only the rubble section off to the left of the picture is baffled off. The sand and bare area are just separated by a large rock hahaha.. I find since its low flow the sand doesn't move anywhere anyway.

Here's mine, you can see the sandy part at the front of the refuge. Just noticed a random slug in there...

Oh my hahaha... Well I shall see what happens then. I've had them looking after it for the past 2 weeks as a test and it seems ok, definitely can't let dad feed them though, he tells me the fish keep begging him for food so he has to feed them...

Hey guys just needed advice in case you guys have tips, In a month's time I'll be out of the city for 6 weeks. My family will manage the tank. Here is what I've instructed them: -feed every day frozen (I've precut the quarter cubes which I feed each day) -feed alternate day seaweed (precut...

That sounds worse than green star polyp

Hey buddy! Ahh that's upsetting. And yeah you're bang on, washing all the rocks and cleaning sandbed would have destroyed too much of the ammonia converting bacteria. As an emergency prevention you can go add that ammonia guard or whatever, or a bottle of store bacteria. In addition to water...

Hey just your question about the refugium, depends on your aim. I'm trying to control nutrients and produce Lots of pods for my fish which need them. So I have 2 types of macroalgae, 2 large pieces of live rock. 1/3 live rock rubble on the base, 1/3 empty for detritus to collect and siphon and...

Our local fish store has one in their display tank, They said they had one 4-5 years ago which got stressed, released a poison and killed one out of thirty fish as a result. But this one currently has been there for 3-4 years with many other fish and no problems

Thanks for the input guys! Mandy is 2-3 months down the line for me. But something good to think about, actually I just realized I have a wrasse so maybe not a good idea with it. Working on teaching my sleeper goby to eat at the moment. It likes prepared food, but is too scared to come out...

Hahaha thanks for the input 2quills I've taken your advice and only trim About 30% of the seaweed each time, finding it's keeping macro as the dominant nutrient user instead of pesky other algae!

Hey! -heater is 1watt per litre (I use two 300W heaters for my 400L tank) -yup love rock then refugium is good -I suggest before these two having your skimmer -I just use skimmer plus refugium to deal with waste no filter socks. But I do get detritus building up near the return pump which I...

Just an update After using garlic, it's starting eating the brine shrimp I place by its den. I can see it actively going after the shrimp pieces. Now I gotta somehow coax it into actually swimming out during feeding time. I suppose it's only day 4 so maybe he's still shy

I'm trying to increase my refugium's capacity for breeding pods for my wrasse and sleeper goby. It's currently lit 23.5hrs a day (30min break for bulb). Do you think 3-4hrs dark period would be good for the tiny critters in the refugium? I've noticed fewer pods since I went 24/7 in the refuge...

I was reading this article where a person first put food in the sandbed, then near it, and then finally over a week it started gobbling food from The water coloumn. So I'm gonna try something similar by putting mysis near its den. I think that's a good starter food because the small Crustacea...