Wet/dry and sump.
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I have a 600g. I also have a full dedicated fish filter room to house large rubbermade tubs.
My advice is to use as big a container you have room for. Your tub must hold enough water to keep your pump from sucking air when operating and be deep enough so it won't overflow when the power shuts off and the overflows stop draining down to the sump. you also want some reserve just in case.
Depending on the type of biomedia you choose, there are recomended volume of media per gallon of tank to be filterd. Just depends on the tank, media etc... If you have a large bioload then consider doubling the amount recomended. The amount of bacteria you grow will not be determined by the amount of media you have unless you don't have enough but the amount of amonia you produce will determine how many colinies you grow. If you only produce say enough amonia to grow 2 million colinies of nitromonas then you will only grow 2 million and it does not matter if you have 10 gallons of plastic media or 100 gallons of it. Add more bioload and you will grow more bacteria.
Look at the amount of space you have for a sump. put the largest sump you can fit, leaving enough room for pumps if external and maybe some room for supplies. If need be, keep supplies in another closet.
For a tank of this size, there will probably not be a pre made sump that will exactly suit your needs but buying two commercial ones and daisy chaining them together may be an option. You will have a hard time running them seperatly as they may sea saw back and forth and may give rise to a leak or flood. If they are plumed together, the water levels will stay the same in them and even if one pump out pumps the other, the tank will not know the differance.
Good luck.
Jeff
My advice is to use as big a container you have room for. Your tub must hold enough water to keep your pump from sucking air when operating and be deep enough so it won't overflow when the power shuts off and the overflows stop draining down to the sump. you also want some reserve just in case.
Depending on the type of biomedia you choose, there are recomended volume of media per gallon of tank to be filterd. Just depends on the tank, media etc... If you have a large bioload then consider doubling the amount recomended. The amount of bacteria you grow will not be determined by the amount of media you have unless you don't have enough but the amount of amonia you produce will determine how many colinies you grow. If you only produce say enough amonia to grow 2 million colinies of nitromonas then you will only grow 2 million and it does not matter if you have 10 gallons of plastic media or 100 gallons of it. Add more bioload and you will grow more bacteria.
Look at the amount of space you have for a sump. put the largest sump you can fit, leaving enough room for pumps if external and maybe some room for supplies. If need be, keep supplies in another closet.
For a tank of this size, there will probably not be a pre made sump that will exactly suit your needs but buying two commercial ones and daisy chaining them together may be an option. You will have a hard time running them seperatly as they may sea saw back and forth and may give rise to a leak or flood. If they are plumed together, the water levels will stay the same in them and even if one pump out pumps the other, the tank will not know the differance.
Good luck.
Jeff