Water Bladder/ Extra Water

I just bought a 55 gallon tank, previously I’ve only ever had 1-20gallok tanks and have used sponge filters or hob filters. I have thought about buying a canister filter but, I am thinking I want to do a heavily stocked tank that ideally includes some cherry and black night shrimp... so handling the bio load is going to tank some doing. I was wondering if anyone has tried or has thoughts on adding in a 10-15 gallon water bladder to increase the total water in the system? I’m doing a planted and am assuming I’ll get about 40ish gallons of open swim area out of it and I know allot of the appeal of a sump is the extra water volume, I just plan on have two aquariums on the stand and won’t have room for a traditional sump. Would the extra water help or would it be a waist

 

A canister will function for extra water volume... so why not just run a couple of canisters?

What are you hoping to stock? Shrimp themselves have such low bioload that it will ultimately depend on what you want to include....

 

well my understanding is that shrimp are very sensitive to water quality. I was going to put in a bunch of zebra danios, neon tetras, and some sword tails. So their bio load would be a lot.

 

well my understanding is that shrimp are very sensitive to water quality. I was going to put in a bunch of zebra danios, neon tetras, and some sword tails. So their bio load would be a lot.

Don't put them all in there at once! You will either spike your cycle or crash it.

 

Well ya