Water flow

J.Lloy · #1 10-23-2007, 04:29 PM

I'm just wondering what different people have for flow rates in what size of tank and would you want more?

Der_Iron_Chef · #2 10-23-2007, 04:36 PM

It's more a question of, what are you keeping in the tank?

J.Lloy · #3 10-23-2007, 05:13 PM

anything or everything doesn't matter at this point for me, guess I should have added also what is your main coral type

Murminator · #4 10-23-2007, 05:39 PM

I use a 9.5 mag return and the big hydor and I used to also run a seio 1100 in my 90 but I recently took it out and I think i'll keep it out give the fish and coral a break

digital-audiophile · #5 10-23-2007, 05:41 PM

In my 90, I get a little bit of flow though mostly aeration from the return line on my sump, I have to Hydor Koralia 4's on both sides of the tank for flow. I am thinking about adding a Koralia 3 in the middle of the back wall to add a little more mixed flow. I'm not keeping SPS right now so the flow is not as vital and with my sand bed it is a challenge to adjust the flow so it doesn't stir it up too much.

Jason McK · #6 10-23-2007, 06:11 PM

in my 370G I have a hammer head return split into 3. 2 wavey seas and regular lockline on the 3rd. The hammer head also feeds my chiller that returns to the sump and a 30G frag tank that also returns to the sump.
I use a Ocean Motion 4way on a closed loop drived also by another hammer head pump. There are 12 outputs to the closed loop that have on off functions depending on the OM 4way

J

Joe Reefer · #7 10-23-2007, 06:41 PM

In my 120 (48x24x24) there is a tunze wavebox, two 6100 and a 6000 tunze stream.

michika · #8 10-23-2007, 06:42 PM

24g nano - mag 7 return on a SWCD, and a hydor koralia 1. SPS & clam dominated

28g nano - Snapper (2400gph), on a Calfo manifold. Will be SPS & clam dominated.

mark · #9 10-23-2007, 07:48 PM

145g BB mixed reef. Dart (3600gph) on a CL with OM 4 way, plus a Iwaki MD-70RLT on return (with head I'm still flowing ~1000gph).

How tank is laid out (returns and rock) think I'm about max for flow as getting difficult to find lower flow areas for stuff like LPS and clams.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #10 10-23-2007, 08:27 PM

On my 210g LPS dominated reef, I have a Hydor Koralia4 (1200gph), 2 @ Tunze Nanostream 6045s (2x1100 gph), a Mag7 return split 2 ways (500 gph), and a Sedra 9000 return (700 gph). That's approximately 4600 gph flow after head loss, and all the flow is higher up in my tank.

Anthony