How much FLOW! does your tank have?

[FiReBReTHa]

Now this poll is dedicated to FLOW!!! how much FLOW you have created by your return pump and powerheads!

This thread is a sequel to the original I created to discuss, Overflow/return pump turnover.
http://reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21183

 

[Poseidon]

90 gallon display, about 500 gph coming in from the sump, and up to 3000 gph via the Vortech MP-40w, but the Vortech is ran in Reef Crest mode, meaning it is not running at 100% all the time.

 

[ss7]

Too small of a scale.

 

[Poseidon]

I reset the poll with a larger scale, and cleaned out the 5 votes that had been cast so far, so please re-vote.

 

[MikeB]

Yeah but now I cant post to the poll since I already did... You messed it up

"Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 5. You have already voted on this poll"

 

[macawmagic]

72 x right now. 75 gal. about 500 through return on sea swirl. vortech mp40 making waves on one side. vortech mp20 on reef crest on the other side.

I just got my new vortech's in the mail and I'll be changing the mp20 to an mp40.

also have an mp40 in a 30 breeder frag tank. works PERFECT!

 

[slipondajimmy]

Well I just bought a sure flow upgrade kit for my spare mj400 and I cant even run it in my 24g nano. Its advertised to do 1000+gph and I am pretty certain it is. The stock mj400 is only 106gph or something

 

[bamachamp92]

I have a 320 gallon display and i have a 2000 gallon return, 5800 gallon closed loop and two mp40w vortechs so about 13,000 to 14,000 gph on 320 gallons so Im close to 40x.

 

[roshi719]

90 gallon display, about 500 gph coming in from the sump, and up to 3000 gph via the Vortech MP-40w, but the Vortech is ran in Reef Crest mode, meaning it is not running at 100% all the time.

You don't have any other powerheads? I thought that the mp40w was a little less flow than my corals like in a 75.

 

[roshi719]

I have a 75 with 700 gph return, plus a korallia 3 behind the rocks and a korallia 5 on one side and a vortech MP40W on the other side set to reef crest mode. 700+850+1650+3000=6200 gph /75 = 43X turnover

 

[Poseidon]

You don't have any other powerheads? I thought that the mp40w was a little less flow than my corals like in a 75.

Nope, no other power heads. I am thinking of adding another MP40 though, mostly due to the growth of the corals, they block a lot of the flow now that they are huge.

 

[Poseidon]

Yeah but now I cant post to the poll since I already did... You messed it up

"Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 5. You have already voted on this poll"

Dude... you have to social skills of a gnat.

 

[mfinn]

With the return pumps, powerheads and closed loop I have approx.10,600 gph of flow in my 240. And it's a soft coral tank

 

[Zoalover34]

I have 2 hydor nano's in my 29g lol.. I don't have very much at all

 

[killingseed2000]

somewhere around 40 to 50x, one reeflo barracude, one dart on a 125 using an ocean motion 4 port.

 

[143gadgets]

I have about 8000gph, but not all the time as the vortechs ramp up and down. Tank is a 90g. I'm thinking about turning the vortachs don as the chalices dont really appreciate it.

Vortech (2) - 6000gph
Maxi mod (1) - ~1500gph
Return - ~500gph

 

[SC00BY]

55g with mag5 return and 2x Koralia 4's, accounting for head loss on the mag, I come up with around 49x

 

[Sikryd]

52x on 125g

 

[AZDesertRat]

Probably between 35 and 40x when you calculate head loss.

 

[KEEPERZ]

6- tunze 6200's
2-waveboxe's
2- dart's on closed loop
1- hammerhead return-1/2 flow sent to frag tanks
tank is 700g- how much X flow is that