Man I love refugiums, maybe more than DTs, what do you have in yours???

dppitone · 07/21/2013, 03:18 PM

I'm adding an additional 55 gallon fuge this week and was wondering what other folks are populating theirs with. What do you have in your fuge?

marvelousone · 07/21/2013, 04:06 PM

live rock cheato,calurpea,mangrove plant. coepdods

Mussin · 07/21/2013, 07:34 PM

sand, cheato and old snail shells.

Mudbeaver · 07/21/2013, 08:02 PM

I'm doing a 75 G starfire display refugium with a collection of macro-Algae , split in two one side will have seahorses and the other side anglers and scorpion fish, file fish and what ever can survive them.

Thats the back wall

That was my last refugium, the next one will be much bigger

My fuge will feed my 180 G starfire Reef tank

crsswift70 · 07/21/2013, 09:27 PM

Chaeto, codium, ulva, spifcifera, and some kind of fluffy pink algae that grows in little bushes.

dppitone · 07/21/2013, 09:37 PM

cool Mudbeavr, my plans are similar, i've had a 45g tank developing pods and mysis for a year and a half so I could start up this fuge. i plan to put a herd of sea horses in it.

Whiterabbitrage · 07/21/2013, 10:08 PM

Gorgeous idea! If I had the room to do it I'd be setting one up to. Please post pix when you are done?

Nick S · 01/26/2014, 02:20 AM

Do you still have lots of pods and little shrimp in your fuges after adding seahorse or anglers? ive been wanting to add something i cant keep in my display but dont want to deplete my populations of beneficial life.

dppitone · 01/26/2014, 09:28 AM

I never added any fish to the 55 gallon fuge we recently put up. To keep it a fuge for pods, it really does need to be setup as a "refugium" against predators that will reduce the pods faster than they can repopulate. But we setup up the tank above two other display tanks that have several mandarins and the pods end up going downstream to those tanks and keep the mandarins fed - that's been working out very well. They don't eat any feeds that we add, just living/surviving off the pods life. We also plan to add several pod eating butterfly fish pretty soon.

d2mini · 01/26/2014, 09:34 AM

Macros, LR rubble, banggai cardinals, stars, crabs, cucs, mangroves, gorgonians, feather dusters...

Saltydrip · 01/26/2014, 09:58 AM

I really need to step it up...

07/21/2013, 03:18 PM	#1
dppitone Registered Member. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Queen Village, Phila. Posts: 1,697	Man I love refugiums, maybe more than DTs, what do you have in yours??? I'm adding an additional 55 gallon fuge this week and was wondering what other folks are populating theirs with. What do you have in your fuge? Last edited by dppitone; 07/21/2013 at 03:25 PM.

07/21/2013, 07:34 PM	#3
Mussin Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Lima,Ohio Posts: 728	sand, cheato and old snail shells. __________________ 120RR tank/ 30g sump, mag 9.5, SWC cone 160, Reefbreeders photon 48

07/21/2013, 08:02 PM	#4
Mudbeaver Registered Member. Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Gatineau , Canada Posts: 1,379	I'm doing a 75 G starfire display refugium with a collection of macro-Algae , split in two one side will have seahorses and the other side anglers and scorpion fish, file fish and what ever can survive them. *Thats the back wall* That was my last refugium, the next one will be much bigger *My fuge will feed my 180 G starfire Reef tank* Last edited by Mudbeaver; 07/21/2013 at 08:09 PM.

01/26/2014, 09:28 AM	#9
dppitone Registered Member. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Queen Village, Phila. Posts: 1,697	I never added any fish to the 55 gallon fuge we recently put up. To keep it a fuge for pods, it really does need to be setup as a "refugium" against predators that will reduce the pods faster than they can repopulate. But we setup up the tank above two other display tanks that have several mandarins and the pods end up going downstream to those tanks and keep the mandarins fed - that's been working out very well. They don't eat any feeds that we add, just living/surviving off the pods life. We also plan to add several pod eating butterfly fish pretty soon. Last edited by dppitone; 01/26/2014 at 09:50 AM.

01/26/2014, 09:34 AM	#10
d2mini Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 10,344	Macros, LR rubble, banggai cardinals, stars, crabs, cucs, mangroves, gorgonians, feather dusters... __________________ -dennis Elos Diamond 120xl \| Elos Stand \| Radion G4 Pros \| GHL Profilux Controller \| LifeReef Skimmer \| LifeReef Sump Photos taken with a Nikon D750 or Leica M.

07/21/2013, 04:06 PM	#2
marvelousone Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Shreveport La. Posts: 235	live rock cheato,calurpea,mangrove plant. coepdods

07/21/2013, 09:27 PM	#5
crsswift70 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Spanish Fort, AL Posts: 1,032	Chaeto, codium, ulva, spifcifera, and some kind of fluffy pink algae that grows in little bushes.

07/21/2013, 09:37 PM	#6
dppitone Registered Member. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Queen Village, Phila. Posts: 1,697	cool Mudbeavr, my plans are similar, i've had a 45g tank developing pods and mysis for a year and a half so I could start up this fuge. i plan to put a herd of sea horses in it.

07/21/2013, 10:08 PM	#7
Whiterabbitrage Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 1,338 Blog Entries: 1	Gorgeous idea! If I had the room to do it I'd be setting one up to. Please post pix when you are done?

01/26/2014, 02:20 AM	#8
Nick S Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 203	Do you still have lots of pods and little shrimp in your fuges after adding seahorse or anglers? ive been wanting to add something i cant keep in my display but dont want to deplete my populations of beneficial life.

01/26/2014, 09:58 AM	#11
Saltydrip Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,826	I really need to step it up... __________________ Current tank 48" 75g DT w/ 55g sump/fuge.