whats that
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A sump is a tank under your display tank. It serves various purposes such as hiding unsightly equipment such as your heater, and also provides a larger water volumn to assist your bio-load. It has more uses but in a nutshell that's where it is the most advantagious.
It is my opinion that you do not NEED a sump. But you have to be very careful to understand and stick to the bioload that your tank can accomodate. If you have a 55 (I didn't look) then you have to keep your "inches of fish to a minimum" 1 inch per ten gallons is optimum without overkill.
That is not a lot of fish and applies more so to reefs. You can have more fish if you do not plan on keeping corals and you have plenty of live rock.
Yeah, I'm tired and I talk to much...sorry.
It is my opinion that you do not NEED a sump. But you have to be very careful to understand and stick to the bioload that your tank can accomodate. If you have a 55 (I didn't look) then you have to keep your "inches of fish to a minimum" 1 inch per ten gallons is optimum without overkill.
That is not a lot of fish and applies more so to reefs. You can have more fish if you do not plan on keeping corals and you have plenty of live rock.
Yeah, I'm tired and I talk to much...sorry.
who dey
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my 125 back in the day had a sump and all the bells and whistles. It worked very well. but when i got back into the hobby a year ago with my 55 i switched to two biowheel 330's because the sound of the 125 drove me nuts. I have a bunch of corals and only a coral beauty angle and 2 percs so it works fine for me. just depends on what your going for as far as bioload.