Sand in my refugium

[Alexnyc22]

Right now i have some rubble rock in my ruge but i was thinking of putting a thin sand bed under the rock and some cheato in there too... Any ideas?

 

[Dre]

If you use rubble you'll have to siphon it occasionally another options are no substrate at all or a thick sugar size sand bed.

 

[Skaters216]

I put a layer of sand in my refuge and some miracle Mudd on top of it then cheato the Cheato has been growing fast.

 

[Ryno]

It depends on how you have your Fuge set up. I use mine as kind of a settling tank so I like to have a bare bottom in it that I can vacuum out.

 

[Johnny Spesis]

I have mud and sand with cheato. The bed is 3-4 inches deep. When the cheato grew crazy, I added hermits to thin it out. At 5 months in, I have large coepods all over. My tank has 3-5 inches of sand mixed with live sand, plus rock. No live rock in sump.

 

[Alexnyc22]

I don't want to use mud because I'll have to always be taking it out and replacing it... I currently have a powerhead on the bottom, some egg crate about 6 inches from the bottom and a few pieces of rock... Wanted to put some sand, some rock and cheato... Some nasarius snails to keep the sand moving. Kind of like a mini tank

 

[homegrowncichlid]

Unless you go deep sand bed, theres no reason to use any sand in the sump refugium at all, as it gets in the way of cleaning, gets stirred up and makes things a little messier moving stuff around. Your rubble is much easier to manage. If anything, you can fill it up with more rubble and just leave a few inches of free space above it for macro algae.

 

[Alexnyc22]

Yea but stuff settles around the rubble