Hi everyone. I wanted to know how everyone who uses a refugium lights it.
Do you run light on a 24 hour schedule or do you have a period of dark? I
have run my 24/7 since I started this spring. I only use a 65w plant bulb
over a 20 long tank. It seems to be plenty of light considering I pull out
enough calurpa to almost fill a gallon pitcher once every week or two. The
problem seems that when I first set this up I saw all kinds of little
critters but now there doesn't seem to be as many. The only other creatures
I have in this are 3 or 4 hermits and a lot of snails (I have some snails
that reproduce like crazy, I think they are strombus snails.) Would turning
off the lights for a period during the day be better than keeping them on
all the time?
Also one more question. I have a 55 gal tank that I have consindering
hooking into my system in order to grow out some more calurpa and some of my
crazy growing xenia and yellow polpys. I would like to keep a lionfish in
this tank. Would a fish like this create to much bioload for a reef tank?
The current system is roughly 220 gallons total volume (tank, sump, and
refugium) with maybe 150-175 lbs of rock and a 6 foot homemade protein
skimmer that pulls some serious gunk.
Thanks
Ben
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