Show me your gravity feed refugium

[rick17]

I'm in the process of doing a refugium that will feed the aquarium by gravity wanted to see some set up's to give me some ideas like which way you feed the refugium and how the baffles are placed if any.

thanks rick17

[CorbetJackson50]

here is a pic of mine its acrylic and about 39 gallons, it is fed with a mini jet rated at like 100gph but it pumps up about 6 inches first. i also have a maxi 1200 in for circulation within the fuge. I maintain about 75gph through the fuge.
http://www.parazz.com/photos/89706678832_8492.jpg

[medic29]

Here is what I set up. It works really well for me...

http://medic29.home.insightbb.com/bnarc/refugium1.jpg

http://medic29.home.insightbb.com/bnarc/refugium2.jpg

The following pic shows the drain from the refugium back to the display tank. This setup keeps my mandrain happy!!! :rollface:

http://medic29.home.insightbb.com/bnarc/refugium3.jpg

[GreenUku]

Any issues with bubbles from the return?

[medic29]

Nope. There are a small amount of bubbles where the water returns, but they disappear right away. The only issue that happens is there is always a build up of salt creep on the pipe. I think if I extended the pipe below the water line was resolve that.

[BeanAnimal]

Mine is set to the left of my tank and just high enough that the drain bulkhead is above the lip of the display tank. The drain has a small elboe and an inch or so of down tube on it. No bubbles.

[rick17]

medic29 The water that goes in the refugium is it coming from another pump or did you put a t at the main pump

[medic29]

I put a "T" on the return line, then a valve so that I could control the amount of flow going through the refugium as I didn't want a lot of flow going through there.

[plc001]

medic29,

How is your refugium sopported?

[panaboy95]

here is my getto fuge. i am gettting ready to change it all over to a 40br.

oops forgot the pic

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/panaboy95/DSC00156.jpg

[medic29]

It is support by white painted "L" brackets; they are rated at able to support 200lbs each...needless to say, my refugium does not weight that much.