I am making my first plywood tank soon and am not sure what size sump I will need. The tank is going to be 350 gallons.
How big does my sump need to be?
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The sump should be about one-third of the volume of the main aquarium, so plan on buying/making a 120 gallon sump.
How about partitioning off a portion of the aquarium you are building and making that the sump?
Just a thought!
Just a thought!
Call me crazy but I think the Sump size depends on what media you are using.
Bioballs/scrubbies/wet/dry tend to need the big sump or 1/3 of show tank.
100% submerged Ceramics is (total guess) 1/4 or less of show tank.
Kaldness is 1/8-1/4 of show tank. Another factor is how packed the tank will be (fish).
I have a 300 gl w/an additional 40 gl frag tank inside the stand for grow outs, all on the same sump. I am using Kaldness and the sump is roughly 60gl?? My media can do 6lbs of shrimp per feeding (which im far far away from that haha).
Bioballs/scrubbies/wet/dry tend to need the big sump or 1/3 of show tank.
100% submerged Ceramics is (total guess) 1/4 or less of show tank.
Kaldness is 1/8-1/4 of show tank. Another factor is how packed the tank will be (fish).
I have a 300 gl w/an additional 40 gl frag tank inside the stand for grow outs, all on the same sump. I am using Kaldness and the sump is roughly 60gl?? My media can do 6lbs of shrimp per feeding (which im far far away from that haha).
1/3 of The tank size like states above is a generally good rule to follow
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I had a 300 g with a 55g sump loaded with bio media and ran a mag24 pump on it. The tank was heavily stocked. Never had a problem. But a 75g would have been a little bit nicer to set up drip trays and piping