HOB refug for 72 gallon a waste?

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ladydragon905

Hello everyone. I have a question to throw out to see what everyone thinks. I have a 72 bowfront, not reef ready, and I was looking for a HOB refugium/sump to put on it. I do not want to pay someone to drill the tank and risk it breaking, nor do I want a bunch of hoses running outside of the tank. (Any water running outside of the tank makes me nervous) I was looking at the Aquafuge large because I could not find any information online about what size tank each size fuge was meant for. I've seen posts lately of people having mediums on <30 gallon nanos. Anyway, the question is, is a refugium that "small" even worth the money for the benefit it will have? The medium I figured out was about 5 gallons...I would use it to increase my pod population, as well as possibly some nitrate reduction and maybe some additional live rock. Are the aquafuge series meant for smaller tanks, thus making them inadequate for mine? Would an "underrated" refugium benefit the tank much at all?

All opinions welcome,
Thanks guys!
Holly
 
Holly, if you're wanting it for pod production, it'll definitely help.

If you're looking to have a remote DSB, it wouldn't be much help unless it was almost full of sand (and I don't know if I'd trust it with that much weight.)

If you're growing macroalgae to reduce nitrates, it could help, depending on how high your nitrates are right now. (I wouldn't expect more than a 5ppm drop.)
 
Thanks Ashlar! My entire tank has a dsb already (I am running it filterless), so I figured I'm already benefiting as much as I can from that. My nitrates now are about 20, and if it could help at all then that would be cool. I'd mainly like it for pods, slight nitrate reduction, additional live rock for extra filtration, and just the overall health of the tank. Sounds like it will help in most, if not all of the areas I would like it to. Do you suggest the large or would the medium suffice?

Thanks!
Holly
 
I thought the same thing, but I would like to buy one used and am having trouble finding ANY much less a certain size, lol. People must like them because no one is selling them!!! lol :)

Holly
 
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