What's in your refugium?

[Yano]

Just want to know to get some ideas for mine. (As I was typing the title I could not help laughing, 'What's in your wallet?')

[Yano]

O yea, and what do you use for lighting?

[wkopplin]

I use two shop lights from Home Depot with the fluorescent ultra daylight bulbe. I have three separate compartments in my fuge. The first holds grape and sawtooth caulerpa. The second holds prolifera caulerpa as well as a 15" bristleworm. The third houses halimeda, shaving brush plants and three or four different types of seagrasses and other rare macros. There are tons of pods and snails (no turbos) in all three compartments. The fuge then gravity drains directly into my main tank without going through a pump.

[RobertG]

I have grape caulerpa, chatamorpha, & red gracilaria. A 5" sandbed, with lots of different pods & worms.

I have a 96W PC retro kit over it. :)

[brewercm]

4 inch sandbed, chetamorpha, xenia, lime colored mantis shrimp. 96Watt quadpc sitting over it.
Oh yeah, it's an eighteen gallon tank.

[BA]

got ne pics of that mantis????so reg flourescent lights will do for most refugiums???

[brewercm]

He's fairly camera shy. I'm gonna have to sneak up one day when he isn't hiding. He only comes out a lot when he starts getting hungry.

[reefer]

the hob fuge (cpr aquafuge18) has a few pieces of liverubble and cheato and half a dozen hermits with couple hundred pods. its lighted by a 36w pc light. the lower refugium (cpr aquafuge pro) has a 4" layer of live rubble, cheato, and red gracilaria. this also has a dozen hermit crabs and a few thousand pods. this is lighted by a 55w pc 24/7. there is a protien skimmer, 9w uv light and a phosban reactor that is attached to this as well.
8)

[::pete::]

In the current sump there is chaeto, sand, rock and lots o' life lit with a 110WPC. When it all gets moved to the new sump/refugium it will still have the same, but be lit with this. (http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/new_bulb.jpg)

[Ram_Puppy]

my 'fuge' techinically isn't hooked up to anything yet, so it's still a tank. 3 inches of carbi sea aragonite, about 6 pieces of red grape caulerpa (which isn't really caulerpa, but I forget the scientific name) and some lr rubble. Plus a scoop out of my display tank.

The scoop will hopefully get some pods going, and maybe some mini-stars which have started showing up in my system. I still need to get some nice sand bed stirrers for it. I would also like to get some sea grasses and other varieties of macro, and will probably be adding miracle mud to the mix as well.

It is lit with the PC bulb w/ reflector sold at home depot for 10 bucks, it's a 15 high tank (not the final fuge, just a seed really).

The final refugium will have more live rock, more lighting (The PC's off the current tank, and maybe even the 175 watt metal halide.) I also am planning on either purchasing or having someone design a nice phyto-reactor to drip feed into the refugium, but I have not been able to find much practical data other than they are good, on the net, I have seen one sexy model, but no one ever has a price. :) lovely.