wet-dry to regugium? (1 Viewer)

[Kittysnax]

Can this be converted into a refugium?

 

[steveb]

I have an older wet/dry very similar to yours that I am about to try and do that with to setup a sump/refugium for a 29 gallon tank for my son. I see lot's of opportunity in it.

 

[Kittysnax]

yea this one was going to be a for a oceanic 30g cube (not a biocube)

I figured id take the bioballs out and use that for the return line....i dunno though heh

 

[steveb]

I was thinking about using the left side in your picture to hold some chaeto and tank drain and either have the right side hold a submersible pump or bulk head for an external pump. I have to do this on the cheap as the wife is already hacked about the $$ I'm spending on my own tank. If an external pump is used it would provide a little extra room for some live rock rubble for added filtering. I also have an older -- nobody laugh -- counter current air driven skimmer I'm gonna rig up in there somehow...

 

[Kittysnax]

same, my husbands kinda "eeeeh" about the $$ goin into this setup which was why i asked...but the more i think about it id really like somthing that provides more surface area. I might just make my own out of a 10G aga...iunno though LOL

 

[tmgrash]

Of course it can. Is that going to be your sump and refugium? If not I would load the bioball section up with lr rubble have water come from the tank into that section and the next section for dsb and cheato, then gravity feed to a return/sump area.

 

[Kittysnax]

i just wanted it to be a refuge. I wanted a place to grow chaeto, pods, ect. have some sand sifter-CUC sorta thing goin on. Mainly use it as supplemental filtration next to the live rock and hob octo skimmer.