Making A Diy Refugium/sump - What Fish/inverts Could Live In It?

[Alex Brown]

I want to clear the calurpa out of my display and into a refugium. I plan to use the return from my external filter to flow into a small tank on a shelf ABOVE my display tank. This will then overflow through a tube into the display. I originall wanted to make this small tank into a species box for a seahorse, however now I plan to move all of my calurpa into it.

Can you recomend some fish or inverts that I could keep in the calurpa box, which will add interest to it? Obveously I cant have them eating the calurpa though

Thanks.

 

[SkiFletch]

How big will this box be?

 

[johnnyjtaylor]

I wouldn't put anything in there.It will soon fill with lots of pods and stuff which are interesting enough to watch. Some of them will wash into your tank, a real benificial treat for your fish and corals.

Johnny

 

[Alex Brown]

Not sure yet, maybe a foot square? Not huge.

 

[SkiFletch]

Crabs?

 

[Alex Brown]

Ha, if only you knew how many were in the display already! There is one reasonably sized black one, I see him eating hair algea from the LR, and he seems to be coming out more in the daylight hours too now

I think I might have a piece of video where you can see him, let me have a look...

 

[Alex Brown]

How about a reef lobster? Or shrimp & goby pair?

 

[Alex Brown]

Sold my first softies to my LFS