Flow rate

[abcha0s]

Originally Posted by Titus99

Thanks Wayne. I was contemplating running separate pump for reactor but one with a manifold might be a good idea.

There are two schools of thought here. Personally, I run my returns independantly. This way, if I want to take a reactor offline or do any kind of pump maintenance, it will not affect my return. I do however run multiple reactors off of a single pump - it's just not the return pump.

- Brad

[Proteus]

Thanks brad I think I like the idea of one return and one for reactors.

[Lampshade]

If you're going with a herbie/beananimal return that needs to be tuned i would defintily go with the seperate pumps. As my carbon prefilter gets plugged up i have more water going to the tank, causing my emergancy drain to get louder and louder. 1500-1800gph seems to be what most run for a return on tanks about that size. If you are running an sump skimmer, you should be moving more water past your skimmer than it takes in, otherwise you are double skimming your water.

[Proteus]

Well I picked up a 1500 gph pump that I'll use as my return. As for the skimmer I read a thread on another forum on a upgrade turning the skimmer into a recirc skimmer with a new feed. I have a octopus and a asm so I'm thinking of trying the upgrade on the asm.

[Lampshade]

Should work out great, i've seem a few of those upgrades on ASM's, hope all goes well

[Proteus]

Me too the wife would prob drown me in the tank if I screwed it up lol