What do you use for flow?

[Sebae again]

Trilinearmipmap I have a 90 with a mag 12 return a 1 inch split to 2 - 3/4 split to 4 1/2 inch . I added 2 H.K. #1 one to each side. Just the right amount of flow for my plate corals ,clams and donuts. Still using sugar ?

[Delphinus]

75g (48x18x20) - 4xMJ12 on wavemaker, one in each corner, left side and right sides are together and pointed at each other to get the "back and forth" effect.

110g (30x30x30) - 2xStream6100 on multicontroller, left and right, alternating to the "back and forth" effect. Plus a serious amount of flow from the sump return (I don't recommend this approach at all, don't make your sump return a main source of water flow in the tank).

In my opinion, cube tanks suck to get a good flow pattern happening because there just isn't enough length of tank to get a good wash going. For every drop (so to speak) of water that goes one way, there's a drop going the other way.

I'm going to be moving my streams into my 280g if/when that ever happens, in which case I'll either change the cube into a Seio on a Wavysea waving back and forth to get the "back and forth" effect. Or I might just put two 802 powerheads on a wavemaker.

Or I might just tear the tank down, I haven't quite decided what I want to do with it yet.

40g (24x24x12), 4 powerheads (2 MJ12, 2 Hagen 301's), on wavemakers plus SCWD on sump return. Not too bad of an alternating pattern but again kind of hard to get a really good pattern going on account of the weird shape of the tank.

[danny zubot]

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Originally Posted by danny zubot
Tell me about what you use for flow and don't forget to tell me what size/shape you tank is.

And you?

Right now I have 2 MJ1200 & 1 JBJ ?? in the tank. I'm trying to get a idea of what works well for people for when I get my Cube going. I was planning on a closed loop but as Tony said they can be a pain because of their shape. So I might have to be creative.

I have a line on a Dart (3600 GPH) for the closed loop, and I was thinking of having the returns come through the eurobracing. Maybe I'll acquire a 4 way controller for it. Any thoughts?

[mark]

Originally Posted by danny zubot

Right now I have 2 MJ1200 & 1 JBJ ?? in the tank. I'm trying to get a idea of what works well for people for when I get my Cube going. I was planning on a closed loop but as Tony said they can be a pain because of their shape. So I might have to be creative.

I have a line on a Dart (3600 GPH) for the closed loop, and I was thinking of having the returns come through the eurobracing. Maybe I'll acquire a 4 way controller for it. Any thoughts?

Cube with OM 4-way bottom drilled, here