Wolfw28
Active Member
I built a refugium for my RedSea Nano along with a ATO tank.
Unfortunately after adding some additional plumbing for my chiller it no longer large enough to hold all the return water when when I shut the pump off. Yes I have a chiller on a 20gal nano do to evaporation causing my home ac system to work harder trying to evaporate all my tank water almost doubling my electric bill on top of the gallon a day of RO water which I’m on a well which uses electric too . So I built a glass lid pumped in a old 25 year old chiller Remove the ATO tank and add a line that comes in from out side where my RO system is. While i was at it I added a hose for fresh air for my skimmer. So i had a thought and thought I would run it by you. So I have this massive old wet dry from my old 170gal from the 90’s
and doing some measuring I found the media part of the wet dry would fit in my stand.
so I was going to glue a piece of acrylic to the bottom and use it and use the old the drip tray
as a Frag rack .I was thinking about configuring it this way
. Water interning through top going down through drip tray/Frag rack into the main body where Cheato grows putting the pump return at the bottom of the Cheato section or below that from the bio media section. I was going to use the media I have in the bottom of my current refugium
and add some of the old plastic bio squares. Then add a 1 to2 in lair of sand. I want to create a breading place for cope pods 1.for CUC 2. because I have a mandarin and plan on add a couple more types of mandarin. Was wondering what you thought about my idea 1. weather to use sand or not 2. Where to put return at in the Cheato section or the bio media section 3. Should I put a small power head in the media section 4. I’m using a Vortec Vertra S1bwhich can be used external or internal , would you plumb internal or external given the choice. Any other advice recommendation or if it a bad idea. It would add roughly another 15gal to to system make it slightly more stable. Thank you for your time greatly appreciate all your information and advice.
Unfortunately after adding some additional plumbing for my chiller it no longer large enough to hold all the return water when when I shut the pump off. Yes I have a chiller on a 20gal nano do to evaporation causing my home ac system to work harder trying to evaporate all my tank water almost doubling my electric bill on top of the gallon a day of RO water which I’m on a well which uses electric too . So I built a glass lid pumped in a old 25 year old chiller Remove the ATO tank and add a line that comes in from out side where my RO system is. While i was at it I added a hose for fresh air for my skimmer. So i had a thought and thought I would run it by you. So I have this massive old wet dry from my old 170gal from the 90’s
and doing some measuring I found the media part of the wet dry would fit in my stand.
so I was going to glue a piece of acrylic to the bottom and use it and use the old the drip tray
as a Frag rack .I was thinking about configuring it this way
. Water interning through top going down through drip tray/Frag rack into the main body where Cheato grows putting the pump return at the bottom of the Cheato section or below that from the bio media section. I was going to use the media I have in the bottom of my current refugium
and add some of the old plastic bio squares. Then add a 1 to2 in lair of sand. I want to create a breading place for cope pods 1.for CUC 2. because I have a mandarin and plan on add a couple more types of mandarin. Was wondering what you thought about my idea 1. weather to use sand or not 2. Where to put return at in the Cheato section or the bio media section 3. Should I put a small power head in the media section 4. I’m using a Vortec Vertra S1bwhich can be used external or internal , would you plumb internal or external given the choice. Any other advice recommendation or if it a bad idea. It would add roughly another 15gal to to system make it slightly more stable. Thank you for your time greatly appreciate all your information and advice.
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