Copepods: Refugiums

Refugiums are a separate habitat that is attached to your aquarium. A good analogy is a business. In a business you will have the front office and back office. The front office is customer forward and looks great. The front office is your aquarium. The back office is where all the work happens to keep the front office looking good and producing a good product. A functioning refugium will include organisms and systems that will

consume nitrogenous waste, such as nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, and urea
consume phosphate
consume CO2 and produce oxygen
add helpful bacteria

The organisms in a functioning refugium include:

live rock
mud and sand
micro and macro algae
Animals including Copepods

One of the goals is to continually have copepods be 'produced' in the refugium and delivered to your reef to feed other organisms.

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