Refuge or Not to refuge??

[r22wink]

I have a 120gal w/ 140lbs of rock, bout 8 months old
I have a 30gal wet/dry filter.
I also have a 30 gal glass tank that i dont use, should i pull out the wet/dry filter on my 120 and put in the 30 gal glass tank as a fuge. divide it into 2 parts with plexi. one part LS,rock, chaeto, chalupra, crabs ect.
or just stay with the wet/dry.
would it be worth the work??? :notsure:

 

[jasonj75]

i would say to go for it since you have the extra tank... you could even use both wet dry and fuge if youve got the space... i would say that the fuge alone is enough, but you could always use the extra circulation... go for it!!!

 

[r22wink]

jason.. i only have the room for one or the other.. cant do both.. i want to keep the stuff under the tank..
thanks for the opinion.. i will see what others our saying, and think on it alittle.. its going to be a pain to change. cause the tank is already running..

 

[escape2thewater]

I would keep the wet dry it if were my tank. It would be nice to add the fuge to it like mentioned above, but if you dont have room just leave it as is IMO.
Escape
:happyfish

 

[r22wink]

escape.. thanks for the input..
Cape Coral???? We ahve a house down there... U drive the crazy Del Prado hwy, or drive or whatever that race track is....!!

 

[escape2thewater]

Originally Posted by r22wink
escape.. thanks for the input..
Cape Coral???? We ahve a house down there... U drive the crazy Del Prado hwy, or drive or whatever that race track is....!!

only if I cant avoid it!

 

[murph]

Why not buy a nice ball of cheato and add it directly to your display tank. Even if it gets eaten off by things in your tank IMO it will try to grow in the mean time and accomplish its limited capability to export nutrients. Maybe I am wrong on this but a ball of cheato usually gos for around ten bucks and most of us probably spend that on replacing filter media on a regular basis anyway.
At the very least your herbivores will love you for it.

 

[reefnut]

I wouldn't put anything in the display but IMO a refuge would do more for the tank than the wet/dry. A wet/dry only provides bio-filtration for nitrification, it does nothing to remove nutrients, nitrates, phosphates, etc where as a refuge would provide nitrification, de-nitrification, nutrient removal including nitrate and phosphate removal..