I got my Gyre's in yesterday.. Holy crap do they have some power. I didn't think things all the way through, since i don't have equal work space of both of the sides of my tank (Since the overflow is on the left side) I don't have enough room to mount both Gyre's across from eachother. the pump is a little under 12 inches while i only have about 9 inches of usable glass
I improvised by mounting the one on that side vertically, while the opposite wall has it mounted horizontally. I need to watch a few more videos on ideal programming, currently i have them running in pulse, the vertical one is running from 0 to 20 blowing against the front of the tank. It's in the upper half of the tank where the higher flow corals are while not blasting them directly of course
The horizontal pump i have running in a reverse Gyre from -20 to 0. It seems to create a lot calmer flow on the sand bed where i currently have my GSP, Favites, Pulsing Xenia, Hammer, and Zoa's. It starts off stronger directly under the pump, and gradually gets smoother as you get to the vertically mounted pump. I will have to post a picture when i get home. I LOVE the control ability of DC pumps. being able to hit 1 button to start a feeding timer is such a welcome addition.
I do feel bad though, One (sometimes both) of my clowns don't like to sleep in the rock at night, so every morning i go out to find them kind of floating at the top, which worried me a lot at first I thought they were dead the first morning, They just aren't morning fish and thats where they sleep, but now the flow is a lot stronger up top so they are kind of getting blown around while they try to sleep or it takes more effort for them to try and get out of the flow.
Is it normal for clowns not to sleep in rock work?
Super excited to get these in the mail early next week!!
