Anyone using Calurpa in their Overflow?

[dougchambers]

For the strange question of the day: "Is anyone using calurpa in their overflow as a mini refugium?"

I have more pods and shrimp in my overflow that anywhere else so I was thinking, what would happen if I threw some Calurpa in there? The overflow gets light and lots of nutrients. It may have too much flow and make the calurpa go sexual, but it's worth the question.

Doug

[scubadude]

I personally dont want anything in my O-flow but water, cuz of restrictions wich could possibly cause floods ewwww...thats such a nasty word!

[FISHme]

What Scuba said

[dattack]

I did this once, and my overflow got really nasty quick. It's a pain to prune when some of the stuff is at the bottom of the overflow.

[organicreefer]

i agree with everyone else that it would get clogged up real quick and be a general pain ....

my overflows have covers i made out of black acrylic...but with the amount of songe and featherduster growth etc i get in there-ive often thought of maybe trying a non-photosynthetic coral or sponge in there and see how it does.

my overflows hold about 3 gallons-i could shut off the return pumps a few times a week and throw a bunch of plankton type foods in there. i could have a diverter line with a ball valve on the line underneath going to the sump ,so when i turn the pumps back on i could divert the first five gallons and do a water change...thereby maintaining them in a nutrient /plankton loaded(at least part of the time)enviroment..and still maintain the water quality in my display.

like i said- ive thought about it -but havent done due to lack of unlimited funds and time