Here's the CSD (Carleson surge device). It's basically a three gallon bucket with three bulkheads. One for the surge line, one for the feed line and one for an emergency drain line.
It, the chiller and eventually the skimmer (not the current skimmer) are fed by this externally mounted pump (
Pondmaster 250)
Here's a shot of the refugium portion of the sump. It is lit by a
Coralife CF unit sitting on the wide center brace. Some additional flow is provided by a small
Hydor powerhead with a rotating head. The refugium currently houses three Pacific green burrowing anenomes and a tuft of Macroalgae. There is about 150 lb's of LR in the sump and display and I have used some pieces to make a bridge in and out of the refugium for hermits and other dentrifores. The blue bottle is just being used to trap out some rock pricklebacks that have been attacking the anenomes.
Here's what a prickleback looks like:
They are amazingly curious fish that can last 17 -23 Hr's out of water but they are savages. I originally trapped them out of the display (and put them in the sump) after they began attacking my sun star and now I must trap them out of the sump as well. It's back to the quarentine tank for them!
Here's a shot of a burrowing anenome
and what it looks like when it's had enough
