Predator and reef ok to plumb to same sump?

Trimblelake · Apr 9, 2016

Would there be any obvious issues with a predator tank and reef being plumbed to the same sump? I just purchased a dual 90 gal stacked system.

Trimblelake · Apr 9, 2016

Picture of setup and future design

Duke4Life · Apr 9, 2016

Yes you can. Congrats that would be awesome.

Lionfish Lair · Apr 9, 2016

Absolutely.

Tateopotatoe · Apr 9, 2016

Definitely following to see how this plays out!!

cilyjr · Apr 10, 2016

Why not.

Bdog4u2 · Apr 10, 2016

Best of both worlds I like it

eatbreakfast · Apr 10, 2016

The only issues that I possibly foresee, is that NO3 can get a bt higher in a predator tank than some reef tanks can deal easily with. But there are simple enough solutions to that, such as carbon dosing r using an oversized skimmer.

Lionfish Lair · Apr 10, 2016

You know the fish that drove my nitrates through the roof? Anthias, my OSFF and seahorses. Preds aren't the automatic bioload people think. They are heavier per inch than a herbivore fish, but there are tonnes of regular fish that are bioload rivals. The tanks where I had problems were tanks that I had to pour food into it and the fish caught some and some blew behinds the rock etc etc. If you pour food in your tank to feed 'whoever", than you will have a messier situation and that is common of a lot of reef fish. I stick feed my preds so there is zero mess. 100% goes in their stomach. I put a trio of blotched anthias in a pred reef and you could see the tank was starting to have some cyano issues and what not. I started stick feeding the anthias and the cyano went away without me stepping up the maintenance.