Can you put snails in a refugium?

Fish, snails, shrimp, corals, crabs, corals, and copepods can all be put in the refugium.

What do you put inside a refugium?

Best items to put in a refugium:

• Macroalgae such as sea lettuce or chaeto.
• Live rock rubble or manufactured biological media.
• Microfauna such as copepods and amphipods.
• A powerful refugium light with a means of automatically controlling its on/off cycle.

What are Nassarius snails good for?

Nassarius snails are very useful in aquariums because they eat detritus, or waste, and keep the sand bed stirred. Nassarius snails do not eat much in the way of algae, but are an important part of any reef aquarium. They will also eat any excess food that the fish do not eat.

Do turbo snails eat Chaeto?

Well-Known Member The turbos definitely ate everything I put in the QT including chaeto.

What do you put in a marine refugium?

What will you put in the refugium? You can use plain sand which you can buy new or use left over sand. Another option is refugium mud, which is said to be better than regular sand. You could leave it at that or go further and buy rock or use left over rock.

What should I put in my freshwater refugium?

At this point, you should have a bottom layer of mostly pure sand, above which should be a graduated mixture of sand-to-soil, with the most soil right at the surface. This is the opposite arrangement as the aquarium. The refugium is now ready to produce regular harvests of invertebrates, but you may need to feed them.

Should you clean out your refugium?

The point of having a refugium is to remove grown algae. If you don’t remove algae you aren’t removing the contaminants. I do agree 2 months is fairly new and you could wait a little longer but you get my point.

Do nassarius snails eat copepods?

I just researched this! I am trying to get my pod population to explode, so I wanted to make sure they don’t eat pods. As far as I can tell, nassarius snails are true detrivores, consuming uneaten food, dead stuff, and fish poop. They don’t eat pods, unless they are dead pods.

How many nassarius snails do I need?

Some recommend between one and two snails per gallon of tank volume as a rule of thumb. Many keepers may be surprised by how quickly a small group of these little snails can scour a tank bottom clean. Before very long at all, they may even require a bit of supplemental feeding from time to time.

Does anything eat Chaeto?

A few of the more common sea slugs will eat it. Elysia Crispata, usually sold as a lettuce sea slug or lettuce nudibranch eats it.

Do Trochus snails eat Chaeto?

A few months back I put 5 trochus and 5 mexican turbo snails in a 10 gallon QT for 76 days. The turbos definitely ate everything I put in the QT including chaeto.

How do you grow copepods in a refugium?

You need to grow some specific strains of phytoplankton to keep them healthy and reproducing. Copepods reproduce sexually when conditions are right. With some species of copepods you can use a concentrated phytoplankton, something like RG Complete or RotiGrow from Reed Mariculture. It’s the best on the market.

Should I put sand in my refugium?

Depending on what you want to grow in the refugium. Certain macro or marine plants can be partial bury in the sand. If you don’t planned on have those, then no need for sand.

Does Chaeto need flow?

It doesn’t need to tumble , but it needs flow.

How long should I run my refugium lights?

Planted refugia seem to “work” just fine as long as they receive at least ten or twelve hours of intense light per day. Still, some aquarists run their lights 24 hours/day without any apparent ill effect.

Will skimmer remove copepods?

Yes, a protein skimmer has the potential to kill Copepods. Copepods can be killed by the protein skimmer as they move through the pump or get removed from the system via the skimmers collection cup.