Well there are places online to look at that stuff.
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That website has some cool links about refugiiums, anyhow here is what I did with mine.
I actually made mine a sump/refugium, but you could just make the refugium. It depends on if you want this gravity fed, return etc, where you have space for the refugium and everything else.
I used a simple surface skimmer to collect water, and gravity flow it down into my sump. I took a 20 gallon tank with some plexiglass and marine safe silicone and seperated the tank long-ways into two sections.
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Something like that. The water comes into the sump through a filter media, just something to reduce bubbles. Inside the sump I have a cap 2200 pump. From the pump I have pvc going two directions. Essentially there is pvc from the pump to a splitter. On one side I have pvc with a control valve kinda like you have for your garden hose outside, only plastic, on the other a straight line back to the tank. This allows me to control the flow into the refugium, and let the rest go back into the tank. The sump also gives me a place to put my heater and skimmer. (For my Fish Only tank). The side going to the refugium I can turn the faucet to control the amount of water going into it, you want a very slow flow (30-40gph). When the water rises above the plexiglass, it just simply comes over into the sump. Then can get pushed back into the tank. I hope this makes sense. I plan on creating directions for mine with a price list and pictures within the next few days so people can see it.
--Andy
[ October 03, 2001: Message edited by: RLV695 ]
