How is your fuge plumbed in?

[Phyl]

In another thread Jun asked:

can you give me advice how to plumb my refugium to my tank

I thought I'd give the topic its own thread! So do tell. How are you plumbed?!


I'll start. Right now my 120 tank is a RR with an overflow into a wet/dry. Water is fed from there through my UV and into my fuge. The fuge is placed higher than the wet/dry and the water is gravity fed back to the wet/dry.

In my 65 I have the macro just hanging around in a tupperware bowl/strainer in the sump, but that tank is still seriously work in process (just moved my 30 contents into the 60).

 

[Phyl]

C'mon... that can't be the best way! I know you all have fuges (well except for you, Merv)! You all don't want him following my setup, do you? Give the guy some options!

 

[Brian]

Well..I dont have a fuge either. I used to use an Aquaclear 300 with some macro algae and LR but gave up on that. I am too nervous to add one to my wetdry.. Although I would really like too. My mandarin needs more pods!!

So c'mon people help me out here! There has to be a simple way to do this. I can post pics of my set up if anyone is willing to give me some direction.

 

[RichT]

my fuge is integrated into my sump and is gravity fed from the overflow plumbing and gravity discharges over a wall into a chamber with the return pump.

The plumbing has been modified a little since installation.

 

[Brian]

Either you REALLY REALLY like Reef Central. or your pics didn't load properly.

 

[RichT]

try it again....I'm not having any problem seeing the pic's

 

[concept3]

you can see the pics rich, but we can't. load it in here or in photobucket. RC won't let you use their storage for pics except for their site.


I know, I know Phyl..... I gave up on the fuge thing. can't seem to keep anything alive except SPS