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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Subsea" data-source="post: 11061902" data-attributes="member: 103573"><p>Welcome to the addiction, I have been hooked for 51 years.</p><p></p><p>The tank in my signature is set up for 25 years.  I bought it used with a macro mud refugium.  The first chamber is wet/dry, the second and largest chamber is the macro algae refugium with miracle mud on bottom.  The last chamber with bubble trap has return pump.  I have been skimmerless for 40 years.  After 20 years, five years ago, I turned out the light and composted tomatoes with Chaetomorphy and turned mud/macro refugium into “cryptic  refugium with mud filter”.  In 20 years, mud depth depth had increased 0.5” and felt spongy to the touch.  With a total depth of 1” of MULM, I stacked eggcrate and put live rock above mud line.</p><p></p><p>In display tank, I ran a Jaubert Plenum with 6” dsb for twenty years and 5 years ago removed  all but 2” of  arogonite substrate and plumbed in pump to reverse flow up thru the substrate.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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