220 Gyre Placement and Setting

[Cole_lol]

Hey All,

I have a 220 aquarium that I am wanting to set my Gyres up in. I have two IceCaps and I love them however I have not found a setting and placement that I like. I am looking for suggestions from anyone that are running Gyres in a larger aquarium.

Currently I have them on opposite sides just far enough below the water level to not create a tornado.
Running them form 0%-100% over 10 seconds.

I also have two MP40s about half way down on the same sides as the Gyre. They are set random.

Thoughts or ideas?

Thanks,
Cole

 

[sundog101]

I have a 93 cube and have mine mounted vertically. It seems to work pretty well in my case and pushes water side to side instead of top to bottom.

 

[Alex Costa]

Cole,

My tank is 1,5 m(wide) x 1,8 m(depth) and I have one Icecap Gyre 150 and one Maxspect Gyre 150.
I have mine 2 mounted vertically too.
1 in each side of back panel.
In one pump I have the upper difusor parallel to lateral glass while the other difusor is aligned with the tank diagonal.
In the other pump the positions of the difusors are inverted.
I run the two pumps in constant speed mode (70~80%)
I have a MP40 (reef crest mode) too, but I'm about to add 2 Koralias gen3 in the front panel.

Alex

 

[sundog101]

How do like the icecap? I've been thinking about getting one and mounting it opposite from the maxspect.

 

[Alex Costa]

Mine is way noisier than the maxspect.......and a lot of people complains about it.
Besides that, it's a good pump.

 

[Cole_lol]

Alex thanks for your reply... I will have to give that a chance. honestly I didnt really think about running them vertical.
I will agree they are louder then I expected however my whole aquarium setup is loud and working on quieting it down.
However, I honestly dont think you can beat the flow!