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one inch spacing on baffles. take away from your refugium to make your reurn section bigger unless you have a ato.

Here is the picture

Thanks for the help Midnight here is the new layout with a center return. It allowed a deeper refugium and I do like the lay out better.

@ Djm- glade to here it worked out going to change to a center return


@ Hat---the tank is a 20 gallon long (30 in by 13 inches leaves about 16 inches left over)...Mine will go in the basement but I did measure and it would fit but my tank is so close to the wall I have no wiggle room to get it though one door if you have room between the wall and your tank you could swing it in. hope it helps.

I just built a nice 125 gallon sump. W/return in the center. Skimmer side to the left, with ins 450 reef dynamics skimmer. And far right refugium 35 gallon. Worked out nice.

the skimmer section should have three baffles: 8in from bottom, then the high one, then another 8in from bottom. otherwise the bubbles can easily go under your first baffle then over the 2nd increasing the chance of micro bubbles into the return pump and to the display. if you move your return section to the middle you can create a larger, or deeper actually, refugium section.

Hey Cruelle, I was thinking of making a new sump for my 75g. What size tank is that you have? Can it go through one side of the doors with no problems? How much room does that leave under stand for other stuff? About how many inches? Thanks, HAT

agsansoo---they are both doing well and are staying close to each other. this morning they where on the other side of tank for the first time!

Nice additions. How are they getting along ?

michika--thanks

Alaska phil---good to hear that this has worked and made a difference....it will be great when it kicks in full steam

angry monkey---I would think that it would work with LED lighting my bulbs I am running are 2 16W/ 5100k so as long it is along the same line I think it would work and save some $$ with the LED's

Has anyone done a algae turf scrubers using LED lighting? If so anyone got pics?
I'm thinking of doing a vertical screen with LED

Awesome, I set one up a couple months back and it's definitly made a difference. I only get algae in the display on my rocks now. Once they've finished leaching phosphate that should go away too. Took mine about 6 weeks to really start growing well.

This sounds really interesting. Nice project.

Sedor- the screen "grows" algae all over it in time--few day to weeks. as the algae grows it use nitrates and phosphates in the water as food thus reducing the levels in my tank at least that is how works in theory. I forgot to note that I used sandpaper to rough up the screen so the algae sticks to it. Here is a link that I found http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic89570-4-1.aspx kind of along the same line evoracer put up. Mt hope is that it helps reduce the nitrate battle in my tank!

Interesting...so is the idea that the egg crate causes friction with the water and allows the algae to grow on the surfaces or how does this all work?

These are very intriguing. One of my locals is doing the same thing, you can follow his progress at my local club site here: http://www.centralcoastreefkeepers.c...hp?f=24&t=1073
It has been running for about a month and a half now.

They are beautiful creatures, but they usually don't live long in our systems. There's an electric version which is even nicer to observe, but they only pulse that blue jolt across their 'lips' (the leading edge of their tissue) during the lighting period. If they could do that at night, it would be way more fun to observe, but it would also attract predators that could do them harm.

You will enjoy it! It will also put a burst of color in your tank. ;-)

Thanks for the input. I did some reading on them last night they are filter feeders. Going today to get one for $9 can't go wrong.

They are pretty neat to watch. I had one in a tank one time a few years back. They hop around to find a place they like, awesome to watch. I did not feed it anything special, I believe they are filter feeders if I can remember right.

yeah I've had a few, while they're cool they are short lived. at least in my experience