Man, every time I get to overthinking something I always get into trouble!. Between last night and this morning I've been dwelling on this so much I can't even find the posts that got me to thinking in the first place. Now, my water peramaters are fine so my filtration must be adequate I would think but by what I've been reading here it seems to me my sumps are too small. Somewhere I read that we need 30% of the tanks size for the wet dry filter, 50% for the sump. So. with my 300 gal tank I should be using 90 gallons of bio balls in the tower and that tower should be in a 150 gallon sump??. that seems huge. As it sits now, I've got two 20 gallon wet/drys that only have towers measuring 9.5" x 10" x 12". I can't get much more than 5 gallons running thru the sumps, so when we say 150 gallon sump should I have a 150 gallon tank down there or should I have 150 gallons of water down there?. And now that I think about it, 90 gallons is 18 sparkletts bottles so I'm thinking I missed something . Well, anyway thanks for putting up with me! jim.