Originally Posted by
dprais1
for what it's worth....
I ran a durso and it was always noisy. I loved having a sump but it wasn't worth it because of the noise. My 75 reef ready tank now houses two juvenile red foot tortoises.
I ran a mag 5 on a 75 gallon tank and it was a little bit too weak
I switched to a mag 9.5, good flow but would blow even heavy sand around and provided some really strong focused current.
I think a mag 7 would have been perfect. if I remember correctly there are two mag 7. I think the aquarium type has a 3' cord and the pond model a 6' cord? The price and everything else appears the same. go for the 6' cord.
IMO you can spend hundreds of dollars playing with baffles and ceramic media, k1 media, bio-spheres, bio-bale and all the latest filter media. And all you will have is a really expensive sump. I think one or two 4" of the very coarse poret foam will provide more than enough surface area for all biological filtration you will ever need. ever.
Get some filter socks or you can rig up a sheet of the filter sock material before the return pump and your water will be crystal clear.