Sump/Refugium?

[rhomer]

Originally Posted by Aelene
Rhomer is that design for a sump and refugium? I'm going to go ahead and taken Squidd's advice and do a sump and refuge, but if he's right about the 10g only being enough for a sump (which i'm sure he is) then the refugium will have to be a HOB kind.
Also, with your design you have a skimmer in the middle section, can I use a HOB skimmer instead and achieve the same results?
Bob - thanks for the moral support :cheer: I am pretty worried about taking care of him, but I imagine I'm up against the same odds that everyone else is so I don't like feeling like I'm doing a diservice to the fish by having bought him. The tank they had him in at the store didn't even have any live rock, and his color is somewhat faded so I'm assuming his nutrition was on the fall from the minute I got him.
I did buy a bottle of pods yesterday (26 bucks! sweet pete), and I put a good chunk of live rock in his tank that has some hair algae on it. I will dose it up tonight, I'm hoping the hair algae will give them a little place to "congregate" so to speak. Other than that I'm feeding him mysis shrimp. I've gone to great lengths for my current fish and will do the same for this guy, so I'm hoping he's going to do well in the long run. We shall see..

You could put the HOB skimmer in the sump. This way you would have less hanging off the back. 10 is pretty small for both, but you could do the same and have everything hang off the back of the sump.
Rob

 

[kingspade]

hey rhomer, i decided to go with the design you showed above, you also showed it to me in one of my posts, i just reversed the layout tell me how it looks. Right to left: Fuge with ball valve cotrolled drain, Center: Skimmer and full speed drain, Left: Return bay.

 

[rhomer]

Originally Posted by KingSpade
hey rhomer, i decided to go with the design you showed above, you also showed it to me in one of my posts, i just reversed the layout tell me how it looks. Right to left: Fuge with ball valve cotrolled drain, Center: Skimmer and full speed drain, Left: Return bay.

Looks great!!!! :cheer:
Looks like a 55???
Rob

 

[kingspade]

40 long, i thought it was a 55 until i bought my wife and daughter a 55 and noticed it was taller than the sump. so a 40 long it is, kind of glad though fits in the stand a lot better than a 55 would have

 

[waterpolo]

Originally Posted by Bob A.
Arlene
Dont feel bad. There are lots of "experts" around here who will tell you you are doing everything wrong and put you on the defense. Sounds like your tank is going fine. Mandarins are tough though, they really like copeopods and you are right in thinking that something like a fuge will help to grow them. Problem is that they will take some time to grow and most of em will be staying down in the fuge not up in the display tank. Now if you run that light on a timer you can put him down there and hopefully he will find enough food to feed on. I have also seen copeopods sold in bottles at the lfs. You might want to look into that to see if you can get some growing soon. Good Luck.
Yeah there are a lot of "experts". I am sure you are one too. The fact is that there will not be enough time for copepods to augment to a certain population and so your mandarin will die. Unless you can buy bottles of copepods.