Flow for 20 gallon?

[Brad Coughlan]

Hi
I have a 20 gallon nano mixed reef tank, and I am currently trying to improve the flow. I currently have a wavemaker that does about 10x tank volume turn over, and yesterday I purchased a Sicce Voyager Nano 2000, which does 25x tank volume turn over by itself, bringing it to a total of 35x tank volume turn over. However, I noticed that the flow down by my mushroom corals was really high, some of the mushrooms were a lot smaller however I am not 100% sure if that is to do with the flow. I saw a bit of green hair algae by the mushrooms that was being blown around a huge amount, and I know that mushrooms don't like high flow.

I am considering changing out the Sicce Voyager Nano 2000 for the 1000 which will make my overall tank turnover (not including the return pump) to around 25x. I want to have this tank as a mixed reef including torches, hammers, frogspawns, acans, duncans, mushrooms and in terms of SPS I am planning on getting some montiporas, would this 25x tank turn over be enough for these corals and in particular the SPS?

Any feedback will be appreciated, thanks

 

[MrGisonni]

Sound like you should tone down the flow a bit.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

Sound like you should tone down the flow a bit.

Yes definitely,
The Sicce pump I got is AC and not controllable to so the only way I can do it is by downsizing down to the 1000 model which I'll do

 

[X-37B]

That is alot of flow for a 20.
My old 20g cube with 1 jebao ow25. More than enough flow.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

That is alot of flow for a 20.
My old 20g cube with 1 jebao ow25. More than enough flow.

Right ok
What is the turn over or flow rate on yours? I see that you have SPS so I'd like to go with something similar

 

[X-37B]

Right ok
What is the turn over or flow rate on yours? I see that you have SPS so I'd like to go with something similar

I ran the jebao in else mode at 100%. Else mode is random and speeds up and slows down. Also ran it in w1 mode which is a pulse.
Heres a pic of the controler.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

I ran the jebao in else mode at 100%. Else mode is random and speeds up and slows down. Also ran it in w1 mode which is a pulse.
Heres a pic of the controler.

My original wavermaker is controllable, but the new Sicce one I got isn't

What I'll do is swap out the sicce for the lower flow rate sicce and turn down my controllable one if I need to

Thanks for the info