Bcb577 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 My current power head is totally inadequate,I'm curious to see how many gph it should be in my ten gallon reef tank? Link to comment
seabass Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 It depends on what you want to keep. 20 times turnover (200gph total flow) would be a minimum. I'd say that 300gph would be better for a mixed reef without SPS. For corals like SPS, you might want in excess of 500gph. Link to comment
Bcb577 Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 It depends on what you want to keep. 20 times turnover (200gph total flow) would be a minimum. I'd say that 300gph would be better for a mixed reef without SPS. For corals like SPS, you might want in excess of 500gph.ok I'm gonna keep mostly softies,perhaps some lps,i have no idea what gph the power head is now but ill be upgrading thanks again! Link to comment
Clown79 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 It depends on corals, rock placement, and tank dimensions. I have 2 powerheads and a filter for my 15g. 100gph filter, 420 koralia, and sicce 530 My 10g has an mj900 for the return and a 100gph pico PH Link to comment
jeffmr4 Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I thought the rule was to be able to turn over your water volume 5 times in an hour in addition to calculating what it has to push it up and any bends. Of course more can be used too. 500 gph on a tank seems a bit much to me. Link to comment
PwnMe Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I thought the rule was to be able to turn over your water volume 5 times in an hour in addition to calculating what it has to push it up and any bends. Of course more can be used too. 500 gph on a tank seems a bit much to me. That rule applies to freshwater usually. Coral "breathe" and release wastes that require water flow. SPS require 50 times turnover. Soft require less but usually 10 - 20 times. Some SPS keepers have 100 times turnover in bare bottom tanks. I'm shooting for 70 in my tank. Link to comment
jeffmr4 Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 I got this information from here, http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Pic/article.cfm?dept_id=&aid=243 It has a picture of sps at the top. Link to comment
cruiZe Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Return pump (thru sump or fuge) sure 5x but then power head creates much more flow within the tank. Link to comment
PwnMe Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 For filtration, I would say that 5 times turnover is good. But 50 times turnover taking into account powerheads is important for SPS. Link to comment
cruiZe Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 When I had a 15g I had 2 korelias x 400 each and a fuge with 80 ish . Corals and fish loved it Link to comment
Bcb577 Posted July 24, 2016 Author Share Posted July 24, 2016 Wow I'm really low on flow in my ten gallon! I'm not sure what I have,lol it's not the typical prop type,looks like something that could almost come stock with the tank,I did buy it separate but I was just getting intoreefing and at the time I hadn't found this forum,I guess next week I'm going to go out and buy a power head,my lfs kinda sucks it mostly has only frugal stuff,not much to choose from,maybe ill buy online? Link to comment
PwnMe Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Wow I'm really low on flow in my ten gallon! I'm not sure what I have,lol it's not the typical prop type,looks like something that could almost come stock with the tank,I did buy it separate but I was just getting intoreefing and at the time I hadn't found this forum,I guess next week I'm going to go out and buy a power head,my lfs kinda sucks it mostly has only frugal stuff,not much to choose from,maybe ill buy online? Once you get a little too into reef keeping you find out you need to buy everything online. My LFS started getting some higher end fluval stuff, but no LED lighting that could easily sustain a reef. They don't have Ecotech Vortechs or anything. Link to comment
Clown79 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I will always disagree that softies like low flow. In my experience, every tank I had with low flow- nothing was happy. As soon as I increase the flow, everything becomes happy. I have 66x flow in my tank- i have 1 sps Link to comment
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