reefperson
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How much flow should my 75 gallon reef tank have I have xina,gonipora,kenyatree,green mushrooms, and eagle eyes.
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sweatervest13
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Originally Posted by reefperson http:///t/395777/flow-amount#post_3524491
How much flow should my 75 gallon reef tank have I have xina,gonipora,kenyatree,green mushrooms, and eagle eyes.
How much flow do you currently have??
Required flow is dependent on what you have (looks like some softies) for corals and fish. It will also depend on what filtration equipment you run. So, what do you run (sump, skimmer, powerheads, reactors, power filters, refugium, filter socks, how much Live Rock and Live sand???)??
A round about way of answering your question is:
You need enough flow to have good gas exchange (a power head pointed across the surface of the water, making it look like it is boiling; good surface agitation), and enough to suspend detritus in the water column to be picked up by your filtration. You want to avoid dead spots in the tank around the rock work.
You may be able to do this with one power head, you may need 3 or 4. It all really depends on how your aquascape is setup. Just a heads up if you have a return pump, don't include that in the amount of flow you have, just use the GPH for the power heads. So, if you were going for 20x turnover rate for a 75g, two Koralia Evo 750's (one on each side of the tank) would work well.
Me personally, I like a lot of flow. I run 2x MP40's on a 125g reef tank. Each MP40 is rated up to 3200 gph. So on full they would put out 6400 gallons per hour, and on a 125g reef tank that would be over 50X's turnover rate. I don't run them on full power though. I run them in reef crest mode that runs a program to ramp them up and down through the day to create a random flow pattern. And to tell you the truth. I am thinking about adding more powerheads (I have some dead spots in the rockwork).
I hope this helps!!
Originally Posted by reefperson http:///t/395777/flow-amount#post_3524491
How much flow should my 75 gallon reef tank have I have xina,gonipora,kenyatree,green mushrooms, and eagle eyes.
How much flow do you currently have??
Required flow is dependent on what you have (looks like some softies) for corals and fish. It will also depend on what filtration equipment you run. So, what do you run (sump, skimmer, powerheads, reactors, power filters, refugium, filter socks, how much Live Rock and Live sand???)??
A round about way of answering your question is:
You need enough flow to have good gas exchange (a power head pointed across the surface of the water, making it look like it is boiling; good surface agitation), and enough to suspend detritus in the water column to be picked up by your filtration. You want to avoid dead spots in the tank around the rock work.
You may be able to do this with one power head, you may need 3 or 4. It all really depends on how your aquascape is setup. Just a heads up if you have a return pump, don't include that in the amount of flow you have, just use the GPH for the power heads. So, if you were going for 20x turnover rate for a 75g, two Koralia Evo 750's (one on each side of the tank) would work well.
Me personally, I like a lot of flow. I run 2x MP40's on a 125g reef tank. Each MP40 is rated up to 3200 gph. So on full they would put out 6400 gallons per hour, and on a 125g reef tank that would be over 50X's turnover rate. I don't run them on full power though. I run them in reef crest mode that runs a program to ramp them up and down through the day to create a random flow pattern. And to tell you the truth. I am thinking about adding more powerheads (I have some dead spots in the rockwork).
I hope this helps!!
reefperson
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I don't really know how much flow I have now I have a 110 rated sump 2"live sand 45pounds of live rock a corallife 65 skimmer
sweatervest13
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Originally Posted by reefperson http:///t/395777/flow-amount#post_3524529
I don't really know how much flow I have now I have a 110 rated sump 2"live sand 45pounds of live rock a corallife 65 skimmer
Do you have any powerheads?? What size is your return pump?
How much flow are you shooting for??
You should be okay with a couple of Koralia Evo's (maybe the 1050 gph ones). Put one on each side of the tank.
Originally Posted by reefperson http:///t/395777/flow-amount#post_3524529
I don't really know how much flow I have now I have a 110 rated sump 2"live sand 45pounds of live rock a corallife 65 skimmer
Do you have any powerheads?? What size is your return pump?
How much flow are you shooting for??
You should be okay with a couple of Koralia Evo's (maybe the 1050 gph ones). Put one on each side of the tank.