refugiums
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Refugiums serve as an area to acclimate new fish, or provide a hospital area for sick fish. My refugium has a few peices of live rock in it as well. I also use this as a breeding area for copepods ( to feed my mandarin dragonet).
To further expand mainy's post. A refugium is also a great place to put different algaes to help prevent bad algae outbreaks. It also serves as a "safe zone" for things such as pods, and beneficial bacteria, to allow them a place to breed where your fish and other varios critters won't get to them. A good refugium is pretty much a must in any reef tank.
a ggod friend of mine uses his refugium to house his big angler away from the rest of his fish so they dont get eaten
fro the most part yes but most people use them to grow food for fish i would never use one as a hospital tank because meds would be distributed throughout the whole tank
I wanted to do a fresh water refugeum, mainly because the plants will help filter the water, taking up some of the nitrates and using it as food. keeping out alot of the algae problems, and helping oxygintating the water. All the benefits of a planted tank with out the plants in the main tank to get taken up by the fishes.
how would one make one using a 10 gallon tank? someone i know (wink wink) has a few laying around and that same friend had a few pumps too.