Flow?? Too much or just right??

J062682l · Sep 16, 2013

I have a 55 gallon my filter is a fluval 405 and I have nano fans ,2 aqueon acp700 and 2 aqueon acp500 is that too much. Everything seems to like it so far?

Reefing Madness · Sep 17, 2013

As long as your happy with them, its fine. The Fluval does not add into the equation. 2400gph is good stuff.

revhtree · Sep 17, 2013

What type of corals?

jservedio · Sep 17, 2013

Reefing Madness said:
As long as your happy with them, its fine. The Fluval does not add into the equation. 2400gph is good stuff.

Actually those Fluval cans put out a decent amount of flow if there isn't any mechanical media in them because they are not pushing against a head (since the siphoning water is cancelling out the head) and that 304 pushes around 250gph in a nice wide pattern. Before I had a sump I used a fluval 205 can acting like a reactor (GFO and GAC) and it added very significant flow to my 20g. I had to remove one of the Koralia Nanos because it was too much flow!

Canisters will significantly add to flow (unlike a HOB) if there isn't any mechanical filtration inside to slow down the flow.

J062682l · Sep 17, 2013

I keep media in my filter ,cleaning cloth , carbon, sponges and those little ceramic bio things, as for corals I have a Kenya tree coral, a Duncan and green star polyps all frags , all doing great actually seem to be growing