Finally, (sorry to keep on) is there a recommended ratio between the size of a Refugium and the aquarium it serves, for optimum results?
I very much look forward to receiving your comments, suggestions, and criticisms on the above so that I can decide how exactly to set up my own system. Arthur Smith Spain Dear Arthur, Thanks for your letter and you are so right about “satisfying some of the folks sometimes, but not all the folks all the time” when it comes to filtration methods. There has been, and still exist today various ‘camps’ that are set in concrete when it comes to their views. Unfortunately, they will not open their minds and at least admit there are other methods that have admirable attributes that if set up properly and correctly maintained, will provide excellent results. This kind of behavior certainly does not benefit the average aquarist, as “he said and/or they said” type of confusion tears down the fabric of our hobby. And there are some that publicly badmouth fellow aquarists because they have differing stances on various subjects. This ‘closed mind’ attitude simply causes further entrenchment in some
