What is your turnover rate?

[jtwilson]

Just curious...what is your turnover rate, what size tank, what kind of corals do you keep?

 

[earlybird]

20X in a 29 and I've got a few zoas and planning for more softies.

 

[jtwilson]

Yeah i think that is my problem.....ive only got about 12X turnover in my 125 right now.....i just ordered two maxijet 1200's two boost it up to about 20X. Hopefully i will have some coraline growth when i up the flow.........my live rock is turning kinda whiteish

 

[rainmkr07]

I have 13.3X in my 75 gallon. I have an Emperor 400 and 2 Maxi Jet 1200's. I'd get Hydor Koralia's before I got Maxi Jet's again. Even the Hydor Koralia 1 has 400GPH vs MJ 1200's 295GPH, but the HK1 uses 3.5 watts and the MJ 120 uses 20 watts! I'd love to get a couple Hydor Koralia 4's, 1200GPH each. Badda Bam!

 

[jrthomas40]

2 hydor koralia 4s and a mag 7 return....1200 x 2= 2400+ 480= 2880/90= 32 gph turnover

 

[evanish]

I run a 600ghp return pump/ two Tunze 9045 nano streams/ and a 9025 nano stream in my 37 gallon Reef.

 

[reefkprz]

roughly 32X depending on the last time I cleaned out all my powerheads.

 

[trippkid]

120 gal, 35X turnover between sump and closed loops, keep mostly LPS and SPS.

Matt

 

[ifirefight]

I have 25 times turnover rate in the 130.

 

[nu2salt]

32x in my 75. 2 HK #4's

 

[jmick]

40-50x times in my 120.

 

[rainmkr07]

Originally Posted by Jmick
40-50x times in my 120.
That's some serious water movement!

 

[coolguy818]

92x in my 70g........
2 Modded Maxi-Jet 1200 = 2400gph x 2 = 4800gph
2 Maxi-Jet 1200 (behind the rock wall) = 295gph x 2 = 590gph
1 Lifegard 3000 - 800gph - head room = 650gph
1 Rio 10HF - 660gph - head room = 400gph
Total of - 6440gph/70g tank = 92x turnover.
Tank top half is a heavy load of SPS and the bottom is Zoas, Ricordia, Duncans and Clams......
That should put me in the lead......

 

[grubsnaek]

Originally Posted by Coolguy818
92x in my 70g........:
what thats insane. what thats insane. yes i said it twice cause thats how i said it in my head.
my 125DT=28x
i have a mag18(1800gph) and two Hydor koralia #3(850gph each)
mag18 is on sump.

 

[grubsnaek]

sorry have LPS and softies

 

[isistius]

somewhere in the neighborhood of 35x in my 135 with zoas, softies, lps.
82x in my frag tank. sps and zoas

 

[jtwilson]

So i'm hopeing the overall health of my tank will improve with jumping from 12X to 20X turnover rate....what do u guys think?

 

[coolguy818]

It will. Remember to point a powerhead towards you rocks when you a water change. To detach any detrius ot uneaten food that may have stopped there.
Whenever I move rocks around in the tank. They are completly clean. None of that dust like looking stuff on it.
Beleive it or not, 92x is actually a pretty good number for SPS tanks.

 

[cichlidkid]

Hey how do you 'mod' a maxi jet. I have a few and i would like to know how you did it.

 

[wangotango]

Originally Posted by cichlidKid
Hey how do you 'mod' a maxi jet. I have a few and i would like to know how you did it.

There is a website, I think it's like maxijetmods dot com or something I'm not 100% sure.
I've got about 600gph from my return, 660gph from my nanostream 6025, and 1189gph from the nanostream 6045 = about 45x turnover in my 55.
-Justin