Recent content by Contender

I am trying to come up with a design for a refugium housed in the stand underneath my tank (4' x 1'). Any help would be appreciated. If you have a refugium underneath your tank, please describe including size, design, time and money it took to build and if you have noticed any benefits. Thanks.

Thanks for the tip. I will definitely look into these if I decide to go with the HOB.

Wish I knew, I have been trying to figure that out myself. I feed pretty conservatively and I do my water changes and top offs with RODI water. Either way, I am sick of red slime so I am doing some extensive changes to my tank. I am removing my old filthy shallow sand bed and converting to a...

My sump right now is pretty small (about 1'8" x8"). It is a wet dry that I am working on taking out the bio balls (converting to DSB). The way it is shaped makes it nearly impossible to section off an area and still leave room for my skimmer and pump. Did you have all the water travelling...

/\

In my quest to lower phosphates I am planning on adding a refugium to my tank. With that much settled, the question still remains....what type of refugium? My options are either to buy a hang on back refugium (max width 4"), or to replace my existing sump with a larger one that I could section...

This is what I have in mind. Hopefully doing this and putting in the water very slowly will minimize the clearing time.

Such as Southdown?

Thank you all for your replies. I am planning on getting rid of the 1/2" layer of sand (if you want to call it that, it seems like equal parts detritus) that came with my tank when I bought it from another reefer. Hopefully getting rid of this filth will help me solve some of the phosphates...

How effective would a 3 inch sandbed be in the denitrification process? Would I experience the positive effects of a DSB with 3 inches, or is this cutting it kinda close?

How deep a sand bed would the 2 25 lb bags make in a tank your size? (you can use the sandbed calculator at purearagonite.com to check)

Well....that explains that algae I have been battling with for a few weeks now. I have been able to keep it localized on a small part so far, but it has slowly been spreading. Anyone know if this could be related with my green brittle starfish slowly wasting away and refusing to eat? I think...

10k PC bulbs actually look surprisingly yellow. You are going to need at least equal parts actinic to balance it out and give it a crisper look. I would definitely go with equal wattage and would stay away from 50/50 bulbs, which lose some intensity.

LOL :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I sure wish mine would have....at least I would have gotten fair warning....

How do you plan to induce the cycle?