Sump/fuge help
- Thread starter Tango
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I like the JBJ Nano Glo for sump lighting myself. I run no sand, just extra rubble/rock in my center chamber.
http://www.amazon.com/JBJ-Nano-Refu...8&qid=1417314752&sr=8-1&keywords=jbj+nano+glo
http://www.amazon.com/JBJ-Nano-Refu...8&qid=1417314752&sr=8-1&keywords=jbj+nano+glo
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I wouldn't run any sand or rubble rock. I personally like keeping things as simple as possible. Keep in mind you will eventually have to clean, rinse whatever you put in there to keep from trapping nutrients. If it were my fuge I wouldn't even keep macros. I don't like doing maintenence on them. I would go bare bottom everything so any detritus can be siphoned up. Even in the tank go bare bottom, just run a sweeper(power heads on the bottom) so it all flows down to the fuge for easy water changes. I would just make sure I had room for a monster skimmer plus 2-3 reactors for bio pellets, carbon, gfo or whatever, even calcium reactor if your tank is too big to dose. It's really all personal preference though.
Depends on what purpose you are using it for. I keep 2" of medium grain, sand several porous pieces of live rock, and cheato in mine. However, the functuin of mine is to provide an adequate source of copepods for my mandarin and melanarus wrasse. Otherwise I would have done only cheato with no rock or sand.
The trimming part is why I choose not to have macro algaes. I'd rather dump some biopellets in a reactor or set a dosing pump to dose vodka or no3po4x into the tank and dump the nitrates and phosphates out of my skimmer cup. There's more effective ways to remove nitrate and phosphate in my opinion. All personal preference. I chose the lazy way. I'd rather enjoy it than maintain it.
