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Who uses refugiums? For what purpose(s) (pods, nitrate export, place to keep naughty fish, second tank)? How have you set them up? Do you think it's been a benefit or detriment to your system? I've noticed a lot of discussion of fuges in other threads and thought it might be worthwhile to have a thread about them in and of itself.
I only recently added a fuge to my system, mainly for pod productions. It consists of a wide, shallow container with about an inch of sand, a ton of microbrittle stars, and a whole lot of cheato. I'm not sure what kind of flow I have through it, but it's not super fast (but apparently fast enough to produce some coraline growth near the return). It's hard to say whether or not it's been "beneficial" to my system, as I am skimming very aggressively and do 10% waters changes 1-2x per week. It's worked very well for pod production - I can see them in there swarming around when I put a flashlight up against the container when it's dark. I run the fuge on an alternate light cycle, and prune my cheato when other people want some.
I only recently added a fuge to my system, mainly for pod productions. It consists of a wide, shallow container with about an inch of sand, a ton of microbrittle stars, and a whole lot of cheato. I'm not sure what kind of flow I have through it, but it's not super fast (but apparently fast enough to produce some coraline growth near the return). It's hard to say whether or not it's been "beneficial" to my system, as I am skimming very aggressively and do 10% waters changes 1-2x per week. It's worked very well for pod production - I can see them in there swarming around when I put a flashlight up against the container when it's dark. I run the fuge on an alternate light cycle, and prune my cheato when other people want some.