What Kind of media do you use in your sump?

[Coderad]

Sorry about the delayed reply. My display is a 32 gal, it is a FOWLR right now 2 clowns a bunch of snails and and eurchant and a couple zebra hermit crabs.
Hopefully I will be adding some easy corals this fall. The sump is a prefab 10gal here is a pic of my sump.

[Coderad]

Bump

[reeferaddict]

I just took everything out and run it bare now... I'm SO sick of nitrates!

[Coderad]

Not even live rock?

[reeferaddict]

Nope... I had about 60 lbs in there and a RDSB... You shoulda seen the crap in there when I took it out... and STINK! I'm almost ashamed... I can't believe my fish lived in a system with all that crap in it!

The school of thought is constantly changing... some stuff you may have read may suggest using media in your sump, and believe me I had all that too as do many people, but now thought is swinging to keeping even less rock and having more flow around it to make it more efficient... rocks & sand in a sump tend to act as detritus collectors so read "higher nitrates"... I LOVE my sand in my system and all the critters in it, but after this I am seriously considering removing all of it if I can't get zero nitrates using other methods.

[Coderad]

So what do you use for filtration just the LR and sand in your tank? your Just using the sump for more water volume?

[Willow]

Originally Posted by Coderad

So what do you use for filtration just the LR and sand in your tank? your Just using the sump for more water volume?

more water volume, a place to stash equipment (heaters, skimmer, micron bag...) or run it as a fuge. also make a good o2 exchanger and volume turnover.