for fish only tank with few soft corals ?sump or refugiums?

nimo1969

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I have tank (150) g and about 125 + Of live rock with fish only and few corals what is best a wet/dry or a big refugiums ?
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Nimo1969
 

ray28576

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Originally Posted by nimo1969
I have tank (150) g and about 125 + Of live rock with fish only and few corals what is best a wet/dry or a big refugiums ?
Thanks
Nimo1969
If I had to go with one, I would say the refugium. JMO
 

120reefer

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I would say the BEST thing would be to make a Sump/Fuge out of a 30-55 gal tank
I made a nice sump/fuge from a 29 gal tank with a little research from this site and it came out great. Mechanical filtration to start, and biological at the end.... get the best of both worlds
 

nimo1969

Member
Originally Posted by 120reefer
I would say the BEST thing would be to make a Sump/Fuge out of a 30-55 gal tank
I made a nice sump/fuge from a 29 gal tank with a little research from this site and it came out great. Mechanical filtration to start, and biological at the end.... get the best of both worlds

I bought a refugium and I made a sump with the following in it
1. protain skimmer
2.live rock (1 rock 25 lbs )
3.carbon,phos guard
4.mirco algea
5.96 watt cf light
Not sure if I should add live sand in the sump ? any ideas or this set up is good ..............feed back please .............
 

unleashed

Active Member
i have t o totally agree with everyone on this one from experience i say refuge/sump i run 2 of my tanks with wet dries they do ok on filtering ect but im soo tired of daily top ofs.i set up a 150 gal with a 125 refuge and i get to top it off once a week so much nicer
 

ophiura

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As soon as you put corals in it, it is no longer a FO tank, IMO

If you are adding corals and basically keeping community type fish, I think a refugium is good.
If you decide to go the other way and go with predators....I would personally go with the wet/dry.
 
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