I have a pro clear wed/dry filter and I want to add a 10 gallon refugium on the other side of the wet/dry. What is the best way to tie these two units together. I am eventually getting rid of my bio balls. I want to know shoild I drill a bulkhead into both and pipe them together. If so how high etc. Please any suggestions. I want to keep the wet/dry cause it's a great place to put my skimmer and such. Please help me . Thanks
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Need help with refugium!
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We had a similar setup a while ago. The way we plumbed it was to have the 10g fuge up on a small platform so that it was a little higher than the wet/dry. I put 2 bulkheads in the fuge (one about an inch higher than the other to act as a backup) and ran 3/4" vinyl hose back to the W/D. I placed a maxijet 600 in the W/D and ran a piece of 1/2" vinyl hose from the maxijet into the fuge through a hole slightly higher than the highest bulkhead. The end of the 1/2" hose was pushed quite a bit into the fuge and was sitting below the water level. I drilled a small hole in the the 1/2" hose just below the water level to prevent back-siphoning.
It was probably not the best way to do it but it worked very well. We used it that way for over a year and never had any problems at all with it.
It was probably not the best way to do it but it worked very well. We used it that way for over a year and never had any problems at all with it.