Sea sweep and tunze

Guttersnipe · Feb 10, 2019

Hi.
How many of you reefers use the sea sweep with a tunze powerhead? I have two in my 90 gallon tank. I think it’s one of the best things i added to my tank. I cant do a tank build with out it now. It hides the cords and put out a whole lot of flow.

Instigate · Feb 10, 2019

Where do you buy them?

RCS82 · Feb 10, 2019

Are you using the controllable tunzes? Aren't the controllers attached to the cords, is this easy to install?

csb123 · Feb 10, 2019

I love mine! They are very durable.

Guttersnipe · Feb 10, 2019

I love mine too. I can’t have a tank without them now.
You can get them from premium aquatics or straight from sea swirls website.
If you have the controllable kind of tunze you have to disconnect the controller to run the wire through to the sea sweep. Only. Small screwdriver is required.
It’s kind of pricey but I think it’s worth it. I have two sea sweeps and two tunze 6105 in my 90 gallon tank. This set up replaced 5 stationary power heads in my tank. IMO this is the ultimate random flow.

FoxyFace · Feb 10, 2019

Guttersnipe said:
I love mine too. I can’t have a tank without them now.
You can get them from premium aquatics or straight from sea swirls website.
If you have the controllable kind of tunze you have to disconnect the controller to run the wire through to the sea sweep. Only. Small screwdriver is required.
It’s kind of pricey but I think it’s worth it. I have two sea sweeps and two tunze 6105 in my 90 gallon tank. This set up replaced 5 stationary power heads in my tank. IMO this is the ultimate random flow.

Can you post a picture? I'm interested in seeing what you have. I'm looking into the seasweep.

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

Ok. I will take a short video and post it once I get home from work.

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

FoxyFace said:
Can you post a picture? I'm interested in seeing what you have. I'm looking into the seasweep.

Here’s a photo. The pumps are not mounted to the back of glass. It is spinning freely by the sea sweep.

They both rotate 90 degrees.

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

Here’s another picture up close.

FoxyFace · Feb 11, 2019

Very cool. I'm not sure if I'd prefer these or plumbing them in. I like that you can control these and I already have Tunzes.

Saveafish · Feb 11, 2019

So they move side to side spitting water every where?

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

They rotate 90 degrees. I just got home from work. My tank is pretty blue at the moment. I can post a video tomorrow when its on full spectrum.

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

Saveafish said:
So they move side to side spitting water every where?

I have two in my tank with each rotating 90 degrees. This gives me 180 degrees of strong flow. Because they are not synced up they create a true random flow.
You have to set the tunzes pumps on full blast and not on pulse or wave mode.

FoxyFace · Feb 11, 2019

Guttersnipe said:
I have two in my tank with each rotating 90 degrees. This gives me 180 degrees of strong flow. Because they are not synced up they create a true random flow.
You have to set the tunzes pumps on full blast and not on pulse or wave mode.

The Tunzes cannot be on pulse mode or is that just how you have them set?

Guttersnipe · Feb 11, 2019

FoxyFace said:
The Tunzes cannot be on pulse mode or is that just how you have them set?

They can’t be on pulse mode. It has to be constant power.
Here’s a video I just uploaded. I zoomed in on some of the frags to show how much polyp extension I get from the flow.

FoxyFace · Feb 11, 2019

Wow. Your coral are loving that! The clown is preparing for a hurricane! LOL!

mstockmaster · Feb 12, 2019

Guttersnipe said:
They can’t be on pulse mode. It has to be constant power.
Here’s a video I just uploaded. I zoomed in on some of the frags to show how much polyp extension I get from the flow.

My understanding from a friend who had worked with these in the past is that the bearings/motors would eventually burn out from the pulsating force of the pulse modes. He worked with Geo a number of years ago and came up with a different system that is still in use on his tank. I took inspiration from this last year and put together a system using a robotics servo and Arduino for an adjustable system (speed, different modes, sweep angle, etc.). Using this I have a single jebao providing flow to my entire tank. Along with a creative aquatics random flow generator on my return I have zero dead spots.