Notsolostfish
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Whats better i own the marine x60.2 and what's better the refigum? or the algae scrubber?
Algae scrubber vs refigum?
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SlugSnorter
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TLDR:
Scrubbers are sometimes faster at growing and take up vertical space instead of horizontal space.
Fuges help grow pods more, and can keep a larger verity of algae and other things, but are larger.
Scrubbers are sometimes faster at growing and take up vertical space instead of horizontal space.
Fuges help grow pods more, and can keep a larger verity of algae and other things, but are larger.
BanjoBandito
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I'm team scrubber. They can help with a lot of phosphate and nitrate problems and seem to be stable and are easy drop in units instead of another whole tank/section to manage.
Lavey29
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Not only pods but all kinds of microfauna like limpits, asterina starfish, etc... I'm amazed at how many things moved out of the big city to the suburbs.But it's asked in a different way, before it was refuge or algae scrubber.
All kidding aside, I like my refuge. Algae grows quick, lots of pods hang out...
SlugSnorter
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yeah, IMO a fuge is a something that you have to grow algae and microfauna, while a scrubber is something you have souly to deal with nutrients
CryptoNautical
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They accomplish different goals a algae scrubber is for nutrient control while a refugium is mainly for keeping up a stable population of microfauna. You can put macro algae in a refugium to remove nutrient but it'll never be as space efficient as a scrubber. (Ex. I have a 40 breeder but I have a 20 long sump that is solely purposed to be a refugium. Works wonders for me, but that's nearly %40 of my water volume once you displace rocks and equipment)
