Sump for 130gallon Freshwater

Hey Guys,

I was recently given a 133gallon tank which I am in the process of setting up for a planted freshwater community tank. It came with plumbing and a 60L sump. I've realised this is way too small for the size tank so am going to be upgrading to either a 80L (21g) or 130L (34g) sump system.

So a couple of questions based around this:

1) Would the 80L be enough to effectively filter the tank? Or would the 120l be the smallest size I should be looking at?

2) In terms of media, I have a decent amount of bio-balls, and was looking at adding rings and possibly a 3rd form of media. Any recommendations or tips?

3) Finally, the pump it came with has 3600 lph (950gph) flow rate. will this work with the 80l/120l?

Thanks in advance for all the help!

- Fuzzy

 

What a great gift lucky you
Hope you get some responses to your questions today.

 

What a great gift lucky you
Hope you get some responses to your questions today.

Me too Coradee haha just found out the plumbing is leaking as well. Looks like I'm going to have to re do that :/

 

Bump

 

Hope someone answers soon....I have the same question

 

Just searched around a bit and I read the ratio should be around 1:4, which means you need 35 gallon or 130 Liter sump. The pump should return 4x this volume per hour.
Not grown in my head, found it here:

This is for reef tanks but I guess same counts for freshwater tanks

Edit: Forgot to mention that the amount of water draining out of the main tank in the event of power outage has to be considered as well.

 

Just searched around a bit and I read the ratio should be around 1:4, which means you need 35 gallon or 130 Liter sump. The pump should return 4x this volume per hour.
Not grown in my head, found it here:

This is for reef tanks but I guess same counts for freshwater tanks

Edit: Forgot to mention that the amount of water draining out of the main tank in the event of power outage has to be considered as well.

That's what I thought (in regards to a 120 being optimal). Hmm this makes things difficult.

Yeh I might have to look into an overflow system as well ... I'm lucky that I have drainage options close by. Thanks for the response Wolf65