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Unread 03/09/2013, 04:54 PM   #2
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You can buy a HOB ready made refugium, but they are usually expensive and have only a small volume. You can do better. It's all about plumbing. You can buy something like a 20 gallon tank, then decide where you want it. You can put it above your tank, pump water to it, then have it drain back to your tank. Or, you can put it beside your sump, inside the cabinet or outside, then either run some of the drain to it or some of the return to it, then have it drain back to the sump. You can keep it clean and good looking as a display tank, or cover the glass witth black paper and just let it get ugly. Lot's of ways. If the refugium flow is part of the sump flow, make sure the refugium outrput goes after the skimmer, otherwise the skimmer will skim off a lot of the pod production.

To give you an example of one way of doing it, here's my remote refugium. 20 gallon tank beside the sump, there's a pump in the sump downstream from the skimmer feeding the refugium, then the refugium drains to the return section of the sump.



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