Any nero 5 users On red sea?

MichaelReefer · Oct 2, 2020

Ravsta said:
Do you run it at 100% in the day? Mine is set to 75% during the day and then 50% during the night.

On my current tank I run it from 50-80 surges during the day. At night it drops to 30%.

Toronto78 · Oct 2, 2020

mooputingtong said:
Mabye i can do nero3 and nero 5, but the price is same and looks like people prefer nero 5 over nero 3.

Interesting, Nero 3 is 30% cheaper (in Canada), but yes not a huge price difference. The other benefit in a smaller tank is the size. I just received a Nero 3 and a Nero 5 (to be used on a 65 gal tank). The Nero 3 is MUCH smaller than the Nero 5 (less than half the size) so much less obtrusive in the tank, but the performance only 34% less, 2000 gal/hr VS. 3000 Gal/hr

mooputingtong · Oct 2, 2020

Toronto78 said:
Interesting, Nero 3 is 30% cheaper (in Canada), but yes not a huge price difference. The other benefit in a smaller tank is the size. I just received a Nero 3 and a Nero 5 (to be used on a 65 gal tank). The Nero 3 is MUCH smaller than the Nero 5 (less than half the size) so much less obtrusive in the tank, but the performance only 34% less, 2000 gal/hr VS. 3000 Gal/hr

Sorry its actually 50 dollars cheaper. 200 for nero 5 and 150 for nero 3. im definitely getting 2 nero 5 for my tank.

DerekB4 · Nov 2, 2020

I’m a newbie and waiting on my Red Sea reefer 200xl (42 g). If I’m planning on keeping soft coral and lps will 1 Nero 5 work, or should I got with 2 Nero 3s?

MichaelReefer · Nov 3, 2020

DerekB4 said:
I’m a newbie and waiting on my Red Sea reefer 200xl (42 g). If I’m planning on keeping soft coral and lps will 1 Nero 5 work, or should I got with 2 Nero 3s?

I am a strong believer in always going more than you need incase you ever increase the tank size...which we all generally do. I would get two Nero 5s and turn them down, then if you upgrade you have them. I had two Nero 5s on my Reefer 250, and when I got my 525XL I still use them, just turned them up.

jaganshi066 · Feb 17, 2021

MichaelReefer said:
I run two Nero 5s on my 525XL. LOVE THEM. I'm a big AI guy. I ran both on my Reefer 250 as well, just turned em down.

Old post but my Nero 5 has killed two of my fish

jaganshi066 · Feb 17, 2021

Ravsta said:
Mine sticks to the glass fine at 13mm thickness but it killed my fish and when I reported it to AI they didn't even apologise for a badly designed wave maker. Don't get me wrong, I love the product but given that they are now including a guard this tells you how wide spread the dead fish issues were. They sent me a link to their sales site where I could purchase a guard for $0.10 cents but $40 shipping to the UK!! I made my own in the end. But they're excellent pumps, almost victims of their own success I would say!!

I lost two fish to the Nero 5