[Fishaddict]

ok I have a 75g reef ready oceanic with a sump. I was thinking that to add a fuge to it i could use a spare 30 g tank I have and put plexi divider's in it. i want to take the pump from my sump and use it to suck the water out of sump into fuge then back into the main tank or should the water enter the fuge first then the sump. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you

[tray262]

Not enough room in your sump to add a refug?

[Fishaddict]

I have a 35g sump there's about maybe 1ft of space between the input and filter media and where the pump pumps it back into the main tank. I don't think there's enough room but I could be wrong. I have never dealt with a refugium before so not sure how much room is required. I have live rock rubble in my sump for filtration.

[devgru]

ive always believed in having the fuge middle sump(sump-PS(output to fuge)-return chamber.i wouldnt dump my main tanks overflow into fuge...your skimming the top of your main tank....too many organics,crude water.

[nynex]

Um isnt that why you would put your protien skimmer in the sump before
the sump goes into the refugium? Have the protein skimmer intake the
water out of the sump and then output into the sump. That way the water
is getting skimmed before it goes into the refugium.

I almost made the mistake of going to have overflow dump into my
wet/dry, then into the fuge, then into the skimmer. wrong idea on my end.
Cause the skimmer would have skimmed out to many important things
from the refugium. The protein skimmer needs to be before the Refugium.
So wouldnt it make total sense to have it in the sump...before the
refugium...

If im wrong...please correct me...cause im trying to figure this out too.

[devgru]

sorry so ong for a response.my answer may not have been so clearverflow into 1st chamber of sump-then into PS chamber-output of PS to refugium.but since then ive modified my setup,but same principle.NEW output of PS feeds into a new chamber in sump where a pump feeds skimmed water up 6' to my FUGE located on top edge of tank and to the rear,water then drops 1' into main tank.(original setup had my pods getting pureed by my return pump)