scotp94

I am new to salt water. I have a 75 gal tank that I will be converting over to salt water through out this year. I have been doing research on this and was wondering how big of a sump should I get? I was thinking something like a 20-29 gallon would be nice. I think to start out I will use live rock and fish only. No coral until I get used to this and do a lot of learning.

nemo addict

The sump can be as big as you can accommadate and large enough for equipment and what ever else you have planned i.e fuge,

sgould

+1...as big or as small as you want/need to accomplish your goal. If you are merely wanting someplace to hide your equipment, you could go as small as a 10 gallon. If you are wanting to significantly increase the volume of water in your system, you can go as large as you have space for.

Hypnox

I saw a 40 gallon breeder with a 65 gallon sump once. So really, it can be as big or as small as you want. Just depends on what you want to do with it.

Peterpiper

Good read on sumps here, its 3 parts
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-01/gt/index.php

au01st

Haha, I've seen a 3 gallon pico with a 30 gallon sump/refugium.

For fish only, you don't even really NEED a sump/refugium, unless you just want it to look cleaner.