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tripleshot
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A little more info about what you plan on haveing in the tank would be nice. is it a reef tank. fish only or will it have live rock in it? We need more info on your plans for the tank. But you will need at least 2.
mudplayerx
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If you are only going to have fish, 10 times the vloume of your tank per hour will be fine. This would be 550gph. I would get about 3 or 4 smaller powerheads or a spraybar
diane4
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Yup, I like mudplayers advice. If I was to do over again on my 50 gallon reef tank (which originally was going to start out as a QT tank to hold my live rock when I hyposalinity treated my other tank, and evolved now into my reef tank tee-hee), I would have bought a few smaller units.
I have a Maxijet 1200 powerhead which is used to operate my AquaC Remora skimmer. I don't know if the water current from that counts in the overall turn. And on the other end, I have another 1200 maxijet. And I think the current is too much. None of the verts like being on one side of the tank where the current hits the wall first. It's too much.
I think I might get 2 maxijet 600 units instead of the 1200. What do you think mudplayer.
I have rhodactis, pulsing xenia, 3 anemones, mated pair of clowns, small peice of pipe organ coral and a couple of foxface fish (small ones) that will move to a bigger tank.
And Jes723ika - my suggestion to you is to buy powerheads and equipment planning for a reef tank, because you get easily sucked up into the hobby. Once you start, there is no turning back. It grabs you and holds on. You can't help it. Buy the best equipment for reef and this way the transition to verts is there if you decide to. Some corals require metal halide, you can always switch lighting later if you want.
I don't have metal halide, I use the Coralife Aqualight Lunar lights, good set of lights.
What kind of fish will you be starting with? Whats your favorite kind, if you have one so far?
I have a Maxijet 1200 powerhead which is used to operate my AquaC Remora skimmer. I don't know if the water current from that counts in the overall turn. And on the other end, I have another 1200 maxijet. And I think the current is too much. None of the verts like being on one side of the tank where the current hits the wall first. It's too much.
I think I might get 2 maxijet 600 units instead of the 1200. What do you think mudplayer.
I have rhodactis, pulsing xenia, 3 anemones, mated pair of clowns, small peice of pipe organ coral and a couple of foxface fish (small ones) that will move to a bigger tank.
And Jes723ika - my suggestion to you is to buy powerheads and equipment planning for a reef tank, because you get easily sucked up into the hobby. Once you start, there is no turning back. It grabs you and holds on. You can't help it. Buy the best equipment for reef and this way the transition to verts is there if you decide to. Some corals require metal halide, you can always switch lighting later if you want.
I don't have metal halide, I use the Coralife Aqualight Lunar lights, good set of lights.
What kind of fish will you be starting with? Whats your favorite kind, if you have one so far?
murph
Active Member
Me and power heads have not been getting along very well lately they just never seem to stay put.
If I had it to do over again I would buy the submersible pumps like what you would put in a sump. Make sure the outflows are threaded. Use a PVC coupling at the outflow and then hard plumb it from there with a angle at the top too direct the flow at right angles, decide what height and then place the pumps in corners of the tanks diagonal to each other.
With the head being most likely under a foot you would get most of the GPH rating of the pump. Two 500 GPH pumps would give plenty of flow. I would then use a single lower flow PH positioned so that it was pumping straight up toward the surface for agitation and most likely be done with the whole system for somewhere around a hundred bucks for a 55 gallon tank.
There is probably even a way to rig some sort of swivel mechanism at the top so it would work like a water sprinkler constantly changing the angle of flow. This would without a doubt eliminate any dead spots in the tank.
If I had it to do over again I would buy the submersible pumps like what you would put in a sump. Make sure the outflows are threaded. Use a PVC coupling at the outflow and then hard plumb it from there with a angle at the top too direct the flow at right angles, decide what height and then place the pumps in corners of the tanks diagonal to each other.
With the head being most likely under a foot you would get most of the GPH rating of the pump. Two 500 GPH pumps would give plenty of flow. I would then use a single lower flow PH positioned so that it was pumping straight up toward the surface for agitation and most likely be done with the whole system for somewhere around a hundred bucks for a 55 gallon tank.
There is probably even a way to rig some sort of swivel mechanism at the top so it would work like a water sprinkler constantly changing the angle of flow. This would without a doubt eliminate any dead spots in the tank.