Fuge livestock

[pandora32]

Its 11:08, i need to get up at 4the to go to work. But i just felt i had to ask.What do you run in your figes and why? What do you consider to be the best fuge setup?I currently have nothing but a dsb of various sized sand and arag. as well as liverock.

 

[fall0n]

I have hermits, snails, big serpent brittle star, macro algae, couple mangroves, rock and sand. Gonna toss a few peppermints in later and possibly filefish/seahorse - haven't decided.

 

[Chichas01]

The fuge should not have anything in it other than rock, sand plants and snails, and maybe detrivores. No crabs, and no shrimp and fish are certainly out of the question. Add these and you no longer have a fuge. It's just another display tank. If it has any potential to eat anything other than algae and detritus, it does not go in the fuge. The point it to create a safe haven where the pods, worms and bugs, reproduce with no threat of predation.

 

[kpiotrowski]

I had a bunch of snails hatch out and are infested in my 50g fuge, and I remove them even, when I can. the goal being to save the algea they eat for the pods. its a display fuge so I clean the front glass, but leave the sides and back for pods to eat.

 

[tat2z_21]

APTASIA is the way to go for a fuge. Millions of them. Just get in there and play with them untill they take over the refuge. Honestly though and army of clams would be awesome for a fuge, or if you have a high flow refugium then a lot of sponges different color and type would be awesome as well, and low light, not cryptic e3ven though that is another good way to go.

 

[kpiotrowski]

APTASIA is the way to go for a fuge. Millions of them. Just get in there and play with them untill they take over the refuge.

I have actualy heard of that being done! I will never understand how some people get away with doing things so "wrongly" and seem to get away with it!

 

[Spinner]

Hello,

I use sand 6"+- and don't touch except lightly to harvest algae, rock, macro algae (root system), snails, and Peppermint Shrimp( PS are hermaphrodite so you need at least two and this will allow two to three fry hatching per month) great food for corals and fish. The shrimp will eat detritus, meat, aiptasia, and some hair algae while feeding at night. I feed them a small piece of shrimp soak in selcon twice a week this would help keep them from eating infana but that has never been a problem in my refugiums. I also use high flow through my refugiums by choice I use MH lighting but not needed some R&D show 3500k works well for algae growth.

Best of Luck!!!

 

[pandora32]

Quiet the variations. I have heard of people putting fish in their fuge, but to me it seems that all the fish waste would just make it back into the display, before the filtering. I forgot, i have 2 hermit crabs in mine as well.

 

[Peppie]

I have rocks, macro algae, sponges, hair algae, One peppermint shrimp, one emerald crab, and a yellow clown goby (Ive tried a couple of times to catch him)

I am sure there are some pods in there somewhere. It seem this part of there system like a closet, sort of like a place to throw things. out of sight out of mind.

 

[Spinner]

+10 on the throw things in..... it kinda funny sometimes seeing hobbiest sumps it's like you have a refugium in there toolol

 

[pandora32]

Yea. Guess thats true huh. Even for me! I put a tank in my wifes office with a "sump" with the typical equipment...and around a 100#s of rock!