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beamer
Thu, 8th Mar 2012, 02:41 AM
I'm currently running a 55 gallon tank with a canister filter. I want to switch to refugium and was wondering about a couple of things:

Best size for my tank?
Cost of refugium setup?
best media to use?
Maintnance?
Running lights?

How reliable is a CPR HOB refugium?

Every opinion counts! Thanks guys!

Disher
Sat, 17th Mar 2012, 11:51 AM
I had the small CPR HOB on a 12 gallon I had setup(overkill I know), and it worked really well. The flow was pretty wimpy from the stock pump that it came with but I was trimming Chaeto weekly. I didn't like how it hung higher than the tank, so if you're looking for something you can hide don't go with any HOB.

beamer
Sat, 24th Mar 2012, 09:13 PM
Ok so I made up my mind and I'm going to use a 20L for the sump. Now any opinions on pumps, overflow box, layouts for sump, skimmer, sump lights. I'm a noob at sumps so anything would help.

reefreak
Sat, 24th Mar 2012, 09:16 PM
I have a rio 2500
As a return pump and I have hob eshopps overflow everything is good and quiet