Frag tank or remote refugium?

[project1004]

Recently I been lucky to collect some really nice equipments on the sales forum and am in progress of completing the project. I am still debating as to what I want to do with it. My main purpose was to make a frag tank and start experiment with propagation and fraging. But I also like an idea of remote refugium and growing some cool stuff in it. What would you do???


What I need dining room for???

alt="" />

30 gallon rimless shallow cube:

alt="" />

Waterfall return:

alt="" />

Dual overflow:

alt="" />

 

[berje]

Why not do both in one tank?

Do frag racks and then in the middle do rubble with all your macros attached to it.

 

[project1004]

Berje;972252 wrote: Why not do both in one tank?

Do frag racks and then in the middle do rubble with all your macros attached to it.

No. I wont want to. Do that. Either it will be dedicated refugium or barebottom frag tank. Thanks for the thoughts.

 

[jdwells]

My vote would be the refugium. I've been thinking about doing that and growing mangroves and maybe some gracilaria for the tangs and foxface.
Could you take some pics of how you plumbed it in for me?

 

[project1004]

Well, I decided to go with frag tank for now. Debating as to go with egg crates or shallow sandbed. Leaning towards shallow sandbed.

It's hard to take a pciture now that the system is connected to main display using pvc pipes. But here is how I got it hooked up to the system. And perhaps the remote refugium project in the future to the other side of the tank. lol


Overflow system. (two drains and one return)

alt="" />

From tha back side

alt="" />

Two drains connected to t-valve

alt="" />

Drains to the sump entrance. I made it in angle to make the water flow down.

alt="" />

As for the return, I manifolded off the return line.

alt="" />