refugium

[slip404]

can anybody tell me how i would plum a 55 gal refugium into and 72 gal reef and a 130 gal reef and/or know where i can get a diagram

[charlie]

Do the 2 tanks have a common sump? Just feed it out of the main sump.

[slip404]

no 2 seperate sumps

[charlie]

God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you are gonna make me think??????????????? I have never done this, but I know that people have. I am only gonna hope that someone else might want to chime in here and give us a hand. Sorry.

[Reefland]

I question the benefit of this? Of course both tanks would enjoy some added filtration but on the bad side, if you get a problem in one tank it will effect both. I would suggest 2 seperate vessels, 1 for each tank.

[leebca]

I have four tanks all plumbed into one system. I have one sump and one refugium and three displays. They all share the same system.

Redundancy isn't a bad word, but you can plumb multiple pumps into the system. For instance, my main system runs not on one pump, but on two pumps. Neither pump delivers the full amount of circulation I want, but together, they do. If one pump goes down, the other is good enough to maintain some circulation. The aquarist can have redundancy in multiple places.

But I'm unsure of what slip404 has in mind. We have a list of equipment but no concept on the flow. For instance, slip404 do you want the refugium water to run into one of the tanks then that tank water run into the next tank? or do you imagine that the refugium feed into each display? or ?

I think you'll have to give us an idea of the kind flow path you want. Take us through where you want the to flow, including all the sumps, the refugium, and display tanks.

My thought would be to plumb it all together into one system to avoid some duplication (like having two sumps). The only reason I can think of to have separate systems would be to run different water parameters and chemistries for different marine livestocks. But then, if that is the goal, you don't want one refugium for both because the waters would mix. ;;

[tray262]

If I'm understanding the question right. It would be the same as any other refug. set up except it would have two inlets (one overflow from each tank) and two return pumps (one back into each tank).

[leebca]

Can't be sure until the poster clarifies the concept.