A show Refugium

[Froggyhonkey]

I am turning my 90 GL into a Reef. I bought a 30 gl breeder, that I turned into the fuge. I want to show it because there is so much life and so much fun watching. I am trying to figure out what are some of the best creatures to put in it.

I was thinking...

Nerite Snails

One guy told me about his buddy that had 2 harlequin shrimp in his that he fed a chocolate chip Starfish to once every 2 weeks.

Maybe sea horses


What is the best and most useful animals? What would be fun to look at? What would cause me trouble.

Also, since I have to keep the light on what will stress out? I am using a low blue light bulb. Any problems there?

[Grins]

Obvious question but let me ask it anyhow...are you willing to accept that seahorses, fish, etc. will eat the pods from the fuge?

[Froggyhonkey]

Yea I hear, you. I will take that into consideration. Will horses deplete the fuge to the point copopods won't reproduce?

What will eat all the trash in the fuge?

[Grins]

yeah, I've seen seahorses go crazy over pods in their tank

What kind of trash are you wanting to be eaten? The detrius? Algae? Are you wanting a DSB? Bare bottom?

[Froggyhonkey]

Yea, everthing you wrote above, but I have fuge mud on the bottem

[Grins]

Pods will help eat the deitrus. For algae grow macro algae to compete for nutrients.

[Subliminal]

The problem you'll have with horses, from what I understand, is that most species like the water colder than a reef is kept. Like ~70 degrees, when a reef is generally ~80 degrees.