Finished Display Refuge!

[spendingdough]

Just a couple pics of the 30G refuge I built.

 

[spendingdough]

More pics

 

[scottallert]

nice are you gonna put livestock in it? or mangroves?

 

[hlcroghan]

Wow!! That is amazing! Very impressive. I wish I had the DIY skills that you do! I can't wait to see it up and running...

 

[spanko]

How will it hook into the display tank, if at all?

 

[redsea]

nice

 

[spendingdough]

well here ya go....well maybe not ...got some technical issues going on here it is up and running but pics wont load. I went and bought 40lbs of LR today for it.

 

[spendingdough]

Its an extension to the middle chamber of the sump. It pumps from and to the same spot.

 

[spendingdough]

Here is the rest.

 

[spendingdough]

The filter on the back of the fuge is just to hold the hose till I can build something nicer looking and permanent.

 

[spendingdough]

I am going to put livestock and algae in it. I really want seahorses....... a LFS here has great stock. We will see though. I kinda want some cow fish too but I will have to do somemore research on them.

 

[coralreefer]

what would be awesome would be a planted seahorse tank! seahorses dont make a large boiload and you could put a lot of caulerpa in there for the seahorses to grab on to

 

[spendingdough]

Yup I wanna do exactly that....and then maybe some other fish and invets.

 

[crypt keeper]

Originally Posted by SpendingDough
http:///forum/post/3017630
I am going to put livestock and algae in it. I really want seahorses....... a LFS here has great stock. We will see though. I kinda want some cow fish too but I will have to do somemore research on them.
Most cowfish get huge. If they die the release a toxin into the water. If that is hooked up to your main tank it could take out both tanks. I wouldnt do it.

 

[salt210]

turned out looking good dough

 

[ryancw01]

Oh wow...I suggested throwing some cheato in your current sump and clipping a stupid light on there and I come back to check out the progress and you built a whole big refugium! Awesome! Looks really good and matches perfectly.

 

[hlcroghan]

I wouldn't really go the route of having anything that will eat any beneficial creatures in your fuge, like seahorses. They eat pods and you want those in your fuge. I would go the route of having a really cool stocklist of inverts, like lots of ornametal shrimps and different types of snails, some colorful mushrooms, maybe some feather dusters......a bunch of different kinds of colors, to help clean out stuff floating in the tank, and they lots of different macroalgaes, like chaeto, caulerpa, and some gracilaria (sp?). It would be very beautiful.....and then once the top is covered in chaeto and it is lower light, you could get some sponges.......it would be very colorful and functional. For a fish though, you could add a lawnmower blenny to eat the algae on the rocks. Let it mature for a while and you won't even have to feed him except for maybe a spirulina pellet a couple times a week to supplement.