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Down stream sump/refuge, turned upstream?

April 26, 2017refuge stream sump turned upstream

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Down stream sump/refuge, turned upstream?

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Hey Gang, I trust y’all are livin’ large!, (life is good!), Anthony, I need your advice on that “downstream refuge” picture/question sent to you last week. In order to put it under the display, I’d have to raise the tank enough to maintenance the Remora Pro protein skimmer, which has been off the tank for a couple of months. As you can see in the photo, the “sump” in the top right side could function as an upstream refuge, it’s easy to feed it with a maxi-jet 1200 from the display, into the Remora chamber, over the sand bed, the into the over-flow back into tank. I’ve got another 20 gallon tank that I was going to put an 8″ DSB in, then put it where the sump now sits as the refuge. I’m