Biocube Refuge ?

[theplantman]

Has anyone tried setting up a refugium with a biocube 29 and its stock lighting. They are PC lights and if memory serves me correct a 75watt actinic and a 75 watt daylamp. I have one lying around and was thinking about plumbing it into my 34 gal. Solana.

Will this be enough light for growing the algaes and other reef plants?

 

[smoothie]

More than enough. Could even put a small frag rack higher up towards the light. How's the current tank coming along?

 

[hellfire]

Wait, so you want to make the entire Biocube a refugium, or make a fuge in the back section of the biocube?

Tyler

 

[smoothie]

I think he wants to plumb the entire thing as a fuge into the 34.

 

[theplantman]

You got it smoothie, I am going to put it around the corner from my Solana in a built in bookcase at a little higher elevation than the solana and plumb the pipe through the closet that is behind both areas, pump into the fuge from the solana and allow gravity to take the water back to the solana through portd i will drill into the biocube as overflows, that way if pumps fail, no overflow issues. Then of course I will be running circulation pumps in both systems.

I was actually thinking of trying to make the fuge a seahorse tank. Not sure yet.

I will post some updated pics of the solana tonight just for you smoothie.

 

[smoothie]

Sounds cool. Can't wait to see it.

 

[jeep9783]

That would be really cool...I never thought about that...You could probably do a Sea Horse Refugium...Now that would be sweet

 

[theplantman]

Recent tank shots, the last is as of last night following a little bit of rearranging this past weekend. The tank is now six months old.



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[smoothie]

So nice

 

[hellfire]

Wow! That looks great.

Tyler