Larger refugium? Or is it going to de added load?

[Erokster40]

I currently have a 54 corer with an RS 100 sump and then a small 300gpm pump in the sump pumping water to a drilled 10 gallon that has some coral an 75% fille with live rock and 100's of mysis shrimp. The return goe bac into the same sock as my DPT.

I am debating drilling the 29 biocube for a direct return flow and putting it in place of the 10 galln so I can put not coral in it and another pair of clowns.

What is your opinion on this, will the tank still be officially a refugium or am I now looking at a setup I should really have a larger sump on? I would be keeping the small300gpm pump and I would put an rw-4 in the biocube as well with an led light.

 

[rebekwl]

I think the 29 gallon would be a nice size sump for a 54 gallon tank. How big you go is really all personal preference. A sump is technically for housing mechanical filtration equipment (skimmer, reactors, etc), where a refugium is an area that holds biological filtration (rocks sand, macro algae, etc). Lots of people set their sump up to have both, others might have them in 2 separate tanks. Again, this is mainly personal preference.