Looking for gyre programming recommendations

chaostactics · Sep 26, 2020

I have an 80 gallon 24x24x32 99% zoa/paly tank with two Gyre XF330 power heads attached in a vertical fashion to my overflow box approximately 12 in or halfway off the bottom.

I just got a hydrous wave engine so I have a better ability to control the pumps and do more customization on flow patterns. I'm looking for suggestions on some good programming for the pumps.

I am unable to move the pumps up or down or place them anywhere else in the tank. I also currently have flow from a Varios 6 return pump That is attached to two 3/4-in deductor/random flow generator running at approximately 60% of max gph.

Live rock is arranged into five main columns see attached drawings for Gyre replacement as well as live rock placement.

Ron Reefman · Sep 27, 2020

BUMP

Good luck. I've always been a strong proponent of as much and as random flow as your corals can use.

josephxsxn · Sep 27, 2020

There is a BRS video were they create a moving tumbling zone by ramping up and down each gyre in sequence. This way each area gets time through the day with strong flow, tumbling (random) flow and weak flow. I don't have a neptune or wave engine so I have yet to try that. (Idk if it's possible on a wave engine I'll try to find the video of what they are doing on neptune.)

Of the 3 tanks I used Gyres on 1 I did the gyre thing with it running long (hours) to move the water around and then reverse, it works and I got the best frog spawn poly extension I have ever seen. Beware linear flow in a circle can get going really fast, kick up sand, or hurt corals by blowing on them nonstop. My other 2 tanks (including my current) I just set them to random and forget about them, using 100% power random/random on my 2 XF250s today. I have considered buying a wave engine so I could tune the random to have a higher bottom end like 40% - 100% rather then it doing the full 0-100% range.