Cheato

[mercenary-grunt]

How do you keep cheato from leaving the fuge? I just had my fuge overflow because the cheato clogged my drain. I just am putting in the cheato for the first time.

 

[Derbird]

I can take no credit for this. The former owner of my tank set this up but I think it could help

I have a dedicated refugium with three chambers about 40 gallons. In the last chamber where it flowes in to the sump it has a little overflow box and some black plastic over the bulk head. I have never had a problem with the macro plugging it up even though I am not as good as I should be at trimming it

Should be a simple thing to do even on a already running system

 

[mercenary-grunt]

Ok thats what I was kinda thinking about. I have a grate that screws into my bulkhead. But that was getting clogged so I took it out. I was thinking about puting up a fence of hardwere mesh.

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[Bosco83]

You need to get some egg crate and make a baffle like this. I got this idea from Melvesreef and it works great!

 

[godzen]

great idea. That sump look awesome, i may do something similar when and if I upgrade from my aio

 

[user 26995]

I do the same thing with the egg crate only I also put vinyl screen over the egg crate so stuff doesn't float thru it.

 

[jrgilles]

Here is the drain on my fuge:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/...lbums/5423067602853924273/5430889147443060610

It is a separate tank that gravity feeds off the DT tank drain and then overflows into the sump via bulkheads. The lower flexable pile is the fill, then the pipe with the black slotted strainer is the drain. The pipe in the back of the picture is my backup drain, which only kicks in if the main drain is clogged (which it has never done). Has worked great for years. My flow rate is pretty slow though, maybe 5-8X or something. A bit slow for chaeto to flourish, but the caulerpa I grow love it.

rob