Refugium Lighting!

[LoveJC03]

Our 15gal sump has a 5gal refugium.

First I want to know, what is everyone putting in their fuges?
What about.. a piece of live rock, live sand, macro algae & a few snails?

I also want to know, what lighting should we have for it? We have a tank light with 2 15w bulbs.

 

[parrotchute]

This might be good - inTank submersible refugium light is ingeniously simple

I wouldn't even put in any snails; they'll just try to get stuck in your return pump.
But the other stuff sounds good...

 

[little_fish]

You can get a clip on light reflect from home depo and put one of those squiggly CFL bulbs in there which is plenty of light for cheato, which is the most common and popular macro algae for fuges.

 

[LoveJC03]

What's the best thing to put in a 5g sump?

 

[little_fish]

Cheato! you can pm bifferwine to get some

 

[LoveJC03]

Just Chaeto...what about sand and live rock?

 

[little_fish]

you can put some rubble rock in there, but i would skip the sand

 

[Patzig]

I would do no sand also...too messy. chaeto above all else, live rock if you have some extra.

 

[LoveJC03]

Thanks both of you ;)

 

[LoveJC03]

Bought some new lights for our fixture that's for our sump/refugium. Wow! These lights look like led's.. I wonder how they'd look in our house if we replaced all of our normal CFL's :D After you turn them off they glow green!

 

[little_fish]

cool factoid i think is correct, the green glow is from the nobel gasses giving off the last few photons after you stop running a current through them

 

[reeftanker84]

i dont know if im crazy or not but the space that my scrubber is in i put cheato and now i wonder if i really need 3 compartments lol

 

[LoveJC03]

cool factoid i think is correct, the green glow is from the nobel gasses giving off the last few photons after you stop running a current through them

Sounds dangerous lol

 

[LoveJC03]

i dont know if im crazy or not but the space that my scrubber is in i put cheato and now i wonder if i really need 3 compartments lol

Hm.. I'm not sure, I've seen the scrubbers people have online and I think they usually put them in the skimmer section and not the fuge.

 

[Sir Alex]

Cheato! you can pm bifferwine to get some

You can probably get some from your LFS.

 

[reeftanker84]

well my scrubber runs from my overflow so it had its own compartment tub that drains into another tub with was going to be the fuge and then from the fuge the water goes into the final tub that containes the return pump and skimmer