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Uncko Macko
03/12/2011, 03:01 PM
Do You feed your Refugium from your drain or return and why? Pro's & Con's?

slief
03/12/2011, 03:18 PM
My overflow feeds my sump which houses my skimmer. The sump then feeds the fuge and the return line pulls from the end of the fuge and returns to the tank. I also have a bypass line that allows me to shutdown the fuge for maintenance while keeping the sump and return pump up and running. I just close one valve and open another. No T's involved. The fuge is down stream from the sump.

Sump on left, fuge on right.
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo347/shleif/Tanks/Sump%20rr/installed.jpg

This is before it all went under the tank when I replaced my wet/dry.
http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo347/shleif/Tanks/Sump-and-fuge2.jpg

aleonn
03/12/2011, 05:24 PM
I feed the refugium through my drains. If my return pump had excess flow, I'd use that flow towards a manifold to power my various reactors. It's kinda a waste to use that flow towards the refugium imho, if you can just feed through a gravity drain instead.

atreis
03/13/2011, 06:41 AM
Drain T, because my fuge is below the tank. If my fuge was above the tank (which is preferable) then I would feed it from a return T.

billdogg
03/13/2011, 06:52 AM
My fuge is just about level with my DT, so feeding it from the DT drain would not work too well. My return pump is a Dart, so I have more than enough flow from it to feed the DT, fuge, and reactors from a manifold.

Uncko Macko
03/13/2011, 02:45 PM
Thanks.. I was hoping for landslide results.. I can't decide which way to go!