anyone use their overflow chamber for anything?

[Arrivalanche]

Ive wondered since I got my latest tank if anyone uses their overflow for hold bad fish or anything. Mine is a corner overflow so I can see right in and it usually gets settlement in the bottom along with aiptasia growing like mad. I was thinking about letting a filefish live back there to eat the aiptasia and as for the setling poop I have a little powerhead in the bottom to keep it stirred up.

Anyone make good use of theirs?

 

[Jhuneke]

I have the same setup.. after adding a durso, I'm toying with the idea of growing some xenia or kenya tree in there to pretty it up lol.. have to fit the durso with a screen tho so it won't clog.

 

[Six2seven]

When I had the hang on back overflow I used to place my carbon bags in there.

 

[watchguy123]

Funny, I had a file fish in mine for a while to eat aptasia as well. Works well. I use my overflow like an algae scrubber. Hair algae grows on the teeth and I trim it off every week or two

 

[Hardridge]

Filled mine with rubble

 

[BrownParticles]

+1 for rubble. Smash up live rock and fill it up.

 

[cymaster007]

Ive wondered since I got my latest tank if anyone uses their overflow for hold bad fish or anything. Mine is a corner overflow so I can see right in and it usually gets settlement in the bottom along with aiptasia growing like mad. I was thinking about letting a filefish live back there to eat the aiptasia and as for the setling poop I have a little powerhead in the bottom to keep it stirred up.

Anyone make good use of theirs?

I use mine to float frags.

 

[Logan killer]

If I'm Aquscaping, My clown goes in there. But, I got a CPR Overflow, so its gonna be messy getting it out lol.

 

[h0ndap0w3r]

i stick my probes in it... haha that sounds awesome

 

[AddictedtoSalt]

i stick my probes in it... haha that sounds awesome

+1... me too.

 

[BeanMachine]

Or you can fill it with coral skeletons... filtration and slight supplementation of alk and cal as they dissolve kinda like a cal reactor.

 

[thompsonz1990]

I use mine to grow chaeto and it works great! Cant stop growing that stuff, I have copepods for miles my mandarin is loving life!

 

[Rockstacker]

Not by design, but I kinda ran with this.
The bottom half of my overflow chambers have been colonized by mysids, copepods and assorted critters.
I guess they are feeding on detritus that do not get sucked into the durso pipes.

I am still considering adding rubble in there to help the critters get better living space.

 

[solitude127]

I use mine to breed bristle worms

 

[SchnitzelReef]

Not by design, but I kinda ran with this.
The bottom half of my overflow chambers have been colonized by mysids, copepods and assorted critters.
I guess they are feeding on detritus that do not get sucked into the durso pipes.

I am still considering adding rubble in there to help the critters get better living space.

Wouldn't recommend doing that. Gunna end up turning into a detritus trap. IMO it's best to keep ur overflow free of anything. That way u can either siphon out the crud, or pull the Durso to drain the whole overflow. I do this to mine once a month minimum.