Overflow into refugium

[Jaws]

I'm just curious if there's any advantage to having your tank overflow into a large refugium first and then the sump? Are there enough organisms and macro algae in the refugium to devour the floating organics instead of having to siphon it out of the sump or is it better to just siphon? Thanks in advance.

[golf nut]

Personally I wouldn't want tank surfactants entering the refugium directly, if you do however do it then be sure to have a similar overflow system in your refugium as you have in the DT.

I would rather see it removed and dealt with, run a bypass to the refugium after skimming and allow it to overflow back to the sump.

[mark]

I flow about 200gph directly into my fuge and do get some detritus, but it's really not that much. As the fuge is BB I easily siphon out what builds up every one or 2 water changes.

Thought was I have a macro fuge to remove nutrients so way not feed it with raw water.