Flow/Powerhead placement

[mizrock]

Hey all,

Fairly new to the hobby and I recently inherited a much larger tank than I had before. Went from the nano world to now a 90 gallon tank (110 gallons including the sump). I'm trying to make sure I have enough flow and that it's aimed correctly. Pardon the iPhone photography, just wanted to snap a quick shot to illustrate. Also, don't judge the aquascaping, I have a bunch more rock coming over from my old tank before I actually plan it out instead of leaving a pile of rocks.

Main return is top left. 1,300 GPH

Just got a Koralia 1150 and 850 to add in there. Should this be a good amount of flow and where would be the best places to put the two powerheads?

Thanks for the help.

 

[JOKER]

If you plan sps will need more flow. For softies and such should be ok. I have the same tank and have two jabeo wp25 and 3 wp10

 

[mizrock]

Where did you place/aim them? No sps going in there as of yet. I'm probably going to look to upgrade the lights and make sure everything's

 

[mizrock]

Where did you place/aim them? No sps going in there as of yet. I'm probably going to look to upgrade the lights and make sure everything's running smoothly for a while before giving the world of SPS a try

 

[RacingTiger03]

The tank should be turned over roughly 45 times per hour IIRC. you're turning it over about 28x/hour. So double up on your PH's for proper flow. As a reference.. I run an 1,100GPH skimmer pump (you can roughly 1/4 that output because of all the 90* bends prior to entering back into the tank BTW), an 1150GPH and 850GPH koralia EVO on my 29G. . Honestly mine is a bit OVER-powered, but I plan on primarily SPS and LPS, and can easily turn off the evos at feeding time . This is actually the pumping setup I had in my 55 before, but long since lost my other 850GPH koralia to balance out the 29 just right haha

 

[mizrock]

The tank should be turned over roughly 45 times per hour IIRC. you're turning it over about 28x/hour. So double up on your PH's for proper flow. As a reference.. I run an 1,100GPH skimmer pump (you can roughly 1/4 that output because of all the 90* bends prior to entering back into the tank BTW), an 1150GPH and 850GPH koralia EVO on my 29G. . Honestly mine is a bit OVER-powered, but I plan on primarily SPS and LPS, and can easily turn off the evos at feeding time . This is actually the pumping setup I had in my 55 before, but long since lost my other 850GPH koralia to balance out the 29 just right haha

Hmm, so would I benefit from returning the two Koralias and biting the bullet to save/spend the money and buy a MP40 instead?

Also, how the heck do I edit/delete a post. I sent my earlier reply prematurely if you couldn't tell. lol

 

[RacingTiger03]

If you don't want to invest in the MP40 you could always swap for a couple 1,500 evo's or a magnum and an evo (1350 evo and a 2250 magnum) I like strong flow on one side of the tank personally... but my success was short lived, so take it with a grain of salt, lol. I would opt for the vortech if I could afford it just to avoid taking up tank space, but with a 110 that isn't as much of an issue. That swap for the 2 evo's or one magnum and an evo would get you at an acceptable level


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[JOKER]

I have one of my 25s on the end of tank running on w1 the other on the opposite end on the back running on w1. The 10s I have 2 on the end flowing mainly toward sps on else and one under rockwork pointing to front of tank and up. Gives me random flow and I can change the setting on pumps and get about any kind of flow I want