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Post by seafishinmn on Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:19 am

I have a 30 gallon tank that I'm gonna use beneath my display tank. I'm going to put my skimmer there as well. Any ideas as to how I can put baffles into it so i can add sand, rocks etc? I think I saw somewhere on one of these forums that you can silicone acrylic onto glass...Is that correct. If that's the case, did someone here have acrylic pieces that could be cut and that they maybe don't want?
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Re: Refugium Question

Post by Home_Depot on Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:58 am

I just went to the local glass shop and had some glass cut and just siliconed them in were ever I wanted there is not a set "spot" for them to be IMO. As for the bafflrs themselves when you find were you want them you are going to want the water to go over the first one under the second and over the thrid and I would keep the second on off the bottom of the sump about an inch.

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by schaver on Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:56 am

Hey seafishinmn
If you get time just stop by and ck mine out to get any ideas. I plan on being home all weekend.

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by Mn. reef crzy on Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:58 pm

make sure you only build the baffles so tall, if you build them to tall and sump holds to much water when you shut your pump off it could cause it to flood.

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by brad on Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:42 pm

Just go to youtube and type in diysump. There are some good videos on it there plus tons of other info. Just checked it out on fragging.

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by Dedex on Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:01 pm

be sure to use the right silicone too - I can't remember the name - maybe someone can help out on this one, or I'll ask Super Al what he used on our tank...

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by Mn. reef crzy on Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:25 pm

you just need to use silicon 1 by GE, the only real rule is that it can not have the anti mold agent in it, and if it does your tank is dead!!

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Re: Refugium Question

Post by Dr James on Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:04 pm

Dedex wrote:be sure to use the right silicone too - I can't remember the name - maybe someone can help out on this one, or I'll ask Super Al what he used on our tank...


GE I or GE II and let it cure for 48 hours. Trust me on that one!!

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my DIY projects

Post by Swanwillow on Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:55 pm

I'll take pics when I get home, but heres a list of what I've done;

Gate-valve mod on my skimmer (AWESOME, but wrong type of vavle=harder, but still AWESOME)

DIY sump
DIY ref. in sump


next projects

DIY hob overflow and adding more pipes to my returns to connect my 35 hex into my current system, making the hex into a refugium

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