Building a Refugium for a Red Sea Tank!

Hey Everyone! Today I am going to show you how I built this refugium for a Red Sea Tank out of its gravity fed Auto Top Off! This Build required me to drill the glass ATO reservoir in order to utilize it as a refugium that will grow chaetomorpha macroalgae . Follow along to build your own!
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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Refugium Build
00:29 What is a Refugium?
00:45 What you Need
01:56 Drilling the ATO
08:15 Breakthrough!
09:31 Refugium Plumbing
11:16 To the Tank
11:53 Additional Parts
12:15 Setup on Tank
18:20 Turning on the Refugium
19:08 Troubleshooting
22:10 How it Works
22:36 Chaeto!
23:09 Outro
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[@gbhil-yo]

pro-tip - drill a hole through a piece of scrap wood and clamp it to the glass for a template. you can spin the drill faster and it won't skip out of the groove. Also don't use a paper towel to clean up because all that white foam is actually glass. Spray it in the sink out outside

[@seateeaquatics]

Thanks for the tips!

[@MotivationAbsolute]

Wow now I can keep seahorses, great video!

[@seateeaquatics]

Glad I could help!

[@76honda76]

Great idea but man, you’ll have chaeto going into the return and into your main display. You need a coarse filter on that tube

[@seateeaquatics]

You are definitely right! I have already added a strainer to prevent this :)

[@Gumoz-sx4bs]

Do you have enough space to move it when cleaning the filter socks?

[@seateeaquatics]

The filter socks on this tank are in a slide out tray, so I haven’t had any issues changing them, if I ever need to move the Refugium I can just remove the stand pipe as it isn’t glued in, and let it completely drain into the sump :)

[@UTUBESTEVED]

You should really consider cleaning your lights. They are full of dust. They can’t help notice and your sump is Dirty walls should be wiped down. Please do this. It's killing me.

[@seateeaquatics]

Thanks for pointing that out! I will make sure to do that the next time I’m there