Add display refugium to set up

[jboone82590]

Ok so im going to add a display fruge to my system the tank im adding as the refugium has been set up for over a year and had a crash about a month ago and killed some of my favorite fish( I almost cried) but now i am getting to a loint where i need to move on and make it a fuge i was just wondering how i should plumb the tank????
Should i do a seperate pump in the sump pumping it?
Should i run the overflow from the DT to the fuge then to the sump?
What does everyone think?

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[VCReefing]

I had one on my 100 gal peninsula it was a 12 gal mr.aqua tank, with a 300gph glass holes overflow, I had the display fuge on its own return pump and the overflow for it right back into the sump, it was essentially 2 tanks sharing the same sump. It worked very well and kept algae from growing in my sump do to light spillage

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[Rakie]

Love it !!!

Use it as an excuse to get some fish you wish you could have but never could due to -reasons-, Angler fish, orange spotted filefish, etc.

 

[VCReefing]

I never kept any fish in it on purpose lol I kept a clown in there that was getting beat up but I didn't want to put food in my refugium it would kind of defeat the purpose. I did have a huge Halloween hermit in there that would munch the algae and looked cool.

 

[VCReefing]

Side view for you

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[jboone82590]

Side view for you

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That is an awesome set up tha ks for posting i think to keep it simple and if things change im going to keep it alone and just run it to the sump

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[jboone82590]

There is how mine are set up the fuge on the right

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[VCReefing]

Did you just plumb them together? Same sump I would assume

 

[Rakie]

Yeah you're right about adding food in there. It depends on whatever it is you're keeping and how sustainable the little macro system is. Some could probably handle a few fish without even noticing any bump in nitrates/phos

 

[greeniejr]

if your goal is pod population growth i would do it above the tank, as pods won't get shredded in an overflow unlike a pump.