small refugium inside the display tank: Is it possible?

[reef4life!!!]

Hi everyone,as my phosphates don't come down i thought of an (stupid probably) idea about setting a small refugium.The idea was to place these things shown in the pictures below and inside of those to put a cheato inside, close it and put it inside a corner in my tank and just put some rocks maybe in front so it's not visible. Could this possibly work or I just make the worst ever post

 

[Quietman]

Seen similar...will it hold chaeto and process some amount of nutrients? Sure. Will it be enough to make it worth the trouble? Doubtful to me. There are reactors that you could mount externally with a pump inside tank or HOB refugiums - some quite large that would work better. More dinero of course.

But that said...it's your tank and I can easily see how that might be an interesting project to try and see what kind of results you get.

 

[reef4life!!!]

Seen similar...will it hold chaeto and process some amount of nutrients? Sure. Will it be enough to make it worth the trouble? Doubtful to me. There are reactors that you could mount externally with a pump inside tank or HOB refugiums - some quite large that would work better. More dinero of course.

But that said...it's your tank and I can easily see how that might be an interesting project to try and see what kind of results you get.

i also thought about putting straight chaeto into my skimmers chamber.It's a deltec mc600 hang on skimmer but i don't think this will work

 

[smol_reef]

I have one of those and not much flow gets through it. I don't know if the slits in mine are a different size, but in my experience, chaeto wouldn't survive in such little flow.

 

[reef4life!!!]

I have one of those and not much flow gets through it. I don't know if the slits in mine are a different size, but in my experience, chaeto wouldn't survive in such little flow.

yeah it probably won't work anyway but i might try this later and if it works it works.

 

[nano_ryan]

Chaeto doesn’t work imo

 

[Nick428]

CPR aquatics use to make an in tank refugium. Maybe they still do. You could probably mod that box for cheaper

 

[DaddyFish]

Any chance you can handle a HOB refugium? Fijicube makes a nice one.
I added one to a 90-gal DT setup peninsula style. Hung it off the end and added an inexpensive cannabis LED grow light to the outside of the fuge. Works great, grows chaeto and sea lettuce like crazy!

 

[reef4life!!!]

CPR aquatics use to make an in tank refugium. Maybe they still do. You could probably mod that box for cheaper

i just searched them,i might give them a try.

 

[reef4life!!!]

Any chance you can handle a HOB refugium? Fijicube makes a nice one.
I added one to a 90-gal DT setup peninsula style. Hung it off the end and added an inexpensive cannabis LED grow light to the outside of the fuge. Works great, grows chaeto and sea lettuce like crazy!

i will search those too and get some ideas.

Also do the refugium has to have specific lights or they can go with regular T5s i have over my tank?

 

[DaddyFish]

i will search those too and get some ideas.

Also do the refugium has to have specific lights or they can go with regular T5s i have over my tank?

Ideally you want the refugium light running opposite your main light cycle. Also be very careful about lighting spillover from the fuge light to the main tank. It will muck up your tank walls bigtime!

 

[Ls7corvete]

You could always get some caulerpa and try to keep it confined to one rock. Be careful it doesn't take over though.

 

[reef4life!!!]

Ideally you want the refugium light running opposite your main light cycle. Also be very careful about lighting spillover from the fuge light to the main tank. It will muck up your tank walls bigtime!

oh why opposite? and yeah i might have to do some extra work in order to make it fit in my tank and to be placed correctly.

 

[reef4life!!!]

You could always get some caulerpa and try to keep it confined to one rock. Be careful it doesn't take over though.

good idea but i don't really like this in my mind right now.I might do it and like that look but right now i think i won't gonna try this.

 

[DaddyFish]

oh why opposite? and yeah i might have to do some extra work in order to make it fit in my tank and to be placed correctly.

It helps limit or smooth out pH dips and other chemistry swings by making the macro algae more active off-cycle. Not a requirement, but a preference.

 

[reef4life!!!]

It helps limit or smooth out pH dips and other chemistry swings by making the macro algae more active off-cycle. Not a requirement, but a preference.

oh ok thank you!!!

 

[jjencek]

I tried that with chaeto. It did not work that well. The circulation was not the best and the DT light was wrong. It also escaped into my DT and messed things up. I could not measure any difference, but it did grew ... so some export was possible.

 

[reef4life!!!]

I tried that with chaeto. It did not work that well. The circulation was not the best and the DT light was wrong. It also escaped into my DT and messed things up. I could not measure any difference, but it did grew ... so some export was possible.

yeah i imagined that it's not gonna work efficient. Another idea i had was to set a small 20-30 liter tank i have since ages unused and maybe connected with a pump since i don't have a sump...is this a good or bad idea ??

 

[jjencek]

I believe that would work. It is an "external pump sump". You just need to figure out the pros and cons of that setup such as possible leaks etc.

 

[reef4life!!!]

I believe that would work. It is an "external pump sump". You just need to figure out the pros and cons of that setup such as possible leaks etc.

yeah i will have to think of everything before i even start doing something.I just sit and randomly an idea pops ,some are very dumb but some could possible work.Right now i had another idea of putting in my skimmer a DIY algae scrubber as i saw from "the king of DIY" but it won't get enough light etc.