300g tank.. wet/dry.. and refugium

[Skunk Clown]

i have a friend who has almost the above set up.......
just no refugium.
i have talked him into getting one. he will be using a 30g. tank...........
i have suggested many things. but what he went with is another overflow box draining into the 30g... with baffles, then a mag 350 return.
does this sound ok?
or will his mag 12 and wet/dry overpower his new overflow...

[Reefland]

I would think that it wouldn't work. If you have two separate overflow boxes draining into two separate containers, I don't think the overflow will drain the rate "it's" return pump is pumping. Look at it this way, if you have 2 boxes both rated at 800gph draining to two sepearate boxes. One return pump is pumping 1000gph and the other 300gph, one overflow will be maxed out and the other will pick up the slack, thus draining the additional 200gph to a container that is only returning 300gph.

I think anyway!

[Skunk Clown]

i was thinking along those lines too......