Native Project/Refugium Update

[fisher12889]

This has been set up for a few months now, and so far I'm pretty happy with how its coming along. There is quite a variety of life in the tank, so I will just list everything. Tank is a standard 125, with a 55 gallon refugium. I run about 400 gph through it, and there is also an aquaclear 110. So far I have had zero issues, and the plants work great to soak up nutrients. They grow very fast, as you can tell from the pic of the 'fuge, I need to thin them out very soon! The hob filter is mostly for mechanical filtration. If you have any questions, comments, or would like to see pics of anything in particular,please post!

Fish

Largemouth bass
Pumpkinseed sunfish
BluegillxPumpkinseed hybrid
3 Green Sunfish
2 Black bullheads

Inverts

Crawdad
Freshwater Sponges
Two species of Ramshorn snails
Pond snails
Ghost shrimp
3 leeches, leftover from fishing lol
Cyclops
Hydra
Bryozoans

Plants

Hornwort
Milfoil
Anacharis
Banana plants
Duckweed

www.youtube.com/user/fisher12889#p/a/u/0/YMbROPNzyHg

 

[Mr.Catfish]

Nice tank!

 

[SkidMark]

how are you running the water from one tank to the other? is it kind of like a sump filter setup?

 

[fisher12889]

how are you running the water from one tank to the other? is it kind of like a sump filter setup?

It's pretty much exactly like a sump setup, just minus the filter media.

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Should make a video. I'd love to see close ups of all the little critters you got. I have some leeches out in my pond and some living in a 12 gallon Scud culture. Not sure what they eat but trying to keep them out of my indoor tanks.