sro-5000sss advice on gallons

[Phishguy]

I know that the coralvue site says 400g but I'd like a little more clarity. What kind of bio-load at 400g? I bought it for my 210g with another 110g for sump and species tank. Im curious if I could plumb my current 120g also. If I did this, the 210g would be fowlr, the 120g for reef, 75g sump and the 30g for misc. Can this skimmer handle all this or should I stick with my original plan of selling the 120g and just making the 210g reef.

 

[heliguy71]

The specs are just a guideline,but the sro 5000 should be fine for your tank,biggest issue is bio-load,do you plan to have a lot of fish,and do you feed heavy.also e-mail Jeremy at coral-vue,he can answer a lot of questions for you.

 

[Coralfrager]

It should be fine, as heliguy stated there just guidelines

 

[Clownin Aroun]

I spoke to a bunch of people close with some people at reef octopus and they said that the number is really more of a minimum number then a max. In other words if you have an SRO 5000 you should have roughly 400 gallons to skim........I have 265 set up with an SRO 3000

 

[heliguy71]

yep I agree you will be fine with the sro 5000 skimmer.

 

[Phishguy]

Wow really? So you guys think this would be fine for a heavily stocked 400g total volume?

~Jon~