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Yeah definitely. I'm gonna try it in a bunch of different ways so I'll let ya guys know
Mounting Maxspect Gyre vertically?
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Right now it's horizontal at 10%. The torch and frogspawn don't like it higher then that
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Sobo, Did you get to test drive your friends gyre?
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They start make a humming sound around 40% or higher. Nothing that will annoy you, but to answer your question.....no vibrations at any speed in the tank
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I'm supposed to be testing it out sometime today I believe so I'll keep ya updated
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Where's the mysis?
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Alright so. Had the gyre in my 150. I can only give a partial review bc 1. It was a demo unit and 2. I only mounted it vertically.
Mounting vertically is fine. It pushes a ton of water for sure. When i had it an inch or less from the surface on high speed, it ripples the surface a little bit but definitely pushes water on top throughout the tank.
I only messed with it for a little bit but I'm sure with the real model and some tinkering it'll be an awesome pump.
I'm sold for getting one for my fish only tank and my future reef tank, hands down.
Mounting vertically is fine. It pushes a ton of water for sure. When i had it an inch or less from the surface on high speed, it ripples the surface a little bit but definitely pushes water on top throughout the tank.
I only messed with it for a little bit but I'm sure with the real model and some tinkering it'll be an awesome pump.
I'm sold for getting one for my fish only tank and my future reef tank, hands down.
I have a dual overflow 120 and I have been trying to figure out where the best place to locate one of these would be...
I was thinking in the middle on the back wall between the overflows near the surface. I am worried about dead spots of the far sides of the overflows. I was thinking about running two MP-10s in the back corners blowing forward on a battery backup in the event of a power outage. I'd be replacing two Jebao RW-15s
I was thinking in the middle on the back wall between the overflows near the surface. I am worried about dead spots of the far sides of the overflows. I was thinking about running two MP-10s in the back corners blowing forward on a battery backup in the event of a power outage. I'd be replacing two Jebao RW-15s
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That's what I was gonna do but decided to mount it vertically next to the overflow closest to the front of the glass. It hit all corners and had no dead spots. Obviously there r areas with less flow but the water definitely moves throughout. And if I need it, I'll throw in my mp10 for extra
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Yes its a corner overflow. I had it going to the back glass to the other overflow then back across the front glass. With that setup, in my tank, being a bare bottom, it'll let any gunk settle in front of the tank for easy vacuuming.
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I wish I took some. I only had it running for 15 mins and then i took it down since it was a friends demo
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No problem
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In the corners? What size tank? If its bigger than a 150 you could probably put them on the sides. I can't do that however bc of the corner overflows and it only being 18" deep
I have a corner overflow on my 80 shallow... I want to put it vertically beside the overflow and throw the flow down back and around front... but I have a few corals along the back that might not like it right on them
