What's in your refugium?

trainfever

trainfever

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I used to have sand but I replaced it with Miracle Mud. I also have the usual pods, bristle worms and feather dusters. I also have snails and hermit crabs in there. I have recently been informed that snails and hermit crabs shouldn't be in the fuge. So, whats in your refugium? Do you have snails or hermit crabs in there?
 
corally

corally

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I'm interested in this also, I have 2 inches of sand in my fuge. Don't I need hermits in there to keep the sand bed stirred up? I thought that was what I was told on here awhile back. And trainfever, do you like the miracle mud?
 
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thomas712

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55 gallon refugium ~ Filtration tank.
I have a good 4.5-5 inch sand bed made from ootlic style aragonite sand.
Chaetomorpha algae and Several hunks of liverock.
I have a growing number of amphipods, copepods, isopids and have several chitons running around.
I have Fire worms, Terebellidae, Cirratulids and Sabella worms, melanostigma, chaetopterid worms, and spirobidae worms all over the glass rocks and even the heater.
I also have a couple of unknown hermit crabs, a red leg hermit.
A fighting conch, micro snails, Turbo snails, Stometella vara , a nassarious snail and astrina starfish.
There are even sponges growing in there.
I even have jewel anemones growing in there.
Thomas
 
unleashed

unleashed

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Originally Posted by PFitz44
ru serious??? What size refuge is it??
the refuge itself is 48x12x18 no worries hes only 7-8 inches long will be going into my 300 its only a temp thing
 
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jcrim

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I have miracle mud, liverock and chaeto. Also, 2 peppermint shrimp, a bunch of snails and hermits, a brittle star and a damsel (don't ask why but I can't get him out now
).
Actually my brittle star does something really cool... I have a chamber with a bunch of bio balls. The brittle star digs his way into the bio balls and eats some debris.
My refugium has basically turned into another tank...
 
trainfever

trainfever

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JCRIM,
You have a brittle star in with the mud and macrolgae? I didnt think they would like that type of environment.
 
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jcrim

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Originally Posted by trainfever
JCRIM,
You have a brittle star in with the mud and macrolgae? I didnt think they would like that type of environment.
I also have probably 20 lbs of liverock. Mine stays mostly in the liverock and bio balls... he's been in there for about 6 months and seems ok.
 
corally

corally

Active Member
Originally Posted by Cartman101
Now is miralce mud a substitute for sand or do you put both in?

I need to know the same thing.
 
pohtr

pohtr

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Well, what are you NOT supposed to put in a refuge? Besides fish that are too big for the space?
 
trainfever

trainfever

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Miracle Mudd is just that, dirt that is full of all kinds of nutrients that you would find in a real refugium, you use it in place of sand. You can buy it at your LFS or do a search online for online suppliers.
 
tormented

tormented

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Ive been told to not keep any crabs or snails in my fuge. Im trying to grow chaeto and pods so anything that would eat them up are a bad choice to live in the fuge.
On the other hand I have seen posts that are very different, some full of crabs, etc.

:notsure: I was kind of confused but I would tend to agree that anything that eats what your trying to farm is a bad idea. Kind of like keeping your cattle in a wheat field.

Id like to know about the mud too. What are the pros and cons vs a DSB?
 
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