Militant Jurist Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Thoughts on this powerhead? Link to comment
jonrx Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Thoughts on this powerhead? That's pushing about 1000gph. Probably a BIT of overkill as it's 100x tank turnover. What type of coral were you going to keep? And that looks like a Chinese knock-off Koralia. Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Tis what I was afraid of. I'm planning on keeping LPS and maybe eventually a few SPS in this 10 gallon that is still on the drawing board. Link to comment
jonrx Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Tis what I was afraid of. I'm planning on keeping LPS and maybe eventually a few SPS in this 10 gallon that is still on the drawing board. If you were only going to do SPS, it'd be fine. I am of the "you can't have too much flow" club for SPS tanks. Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 Scratch that knock off. I've found an actual Koralia that does 260 gph, plus my powerhead which I think does 175 gph, and then my skilter which does 110 gph. The skilter will be run in an in-tank sump area, with the powerhead discharging the sump back into the display. The koralia would be for a counter-current and additional flow. How does that sound for LPS / SPS? That would give me 545 gph total. Link to comment
121a Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 what you linked to had an input voltage of 220v, we in the US use 120v, it wouldn't work here anyway... Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted December 7, 2008 Author Share Posted December 7, 2008 If I remember correct (and my friend Jack is helping me tonight) we do have 220v in the U.S., but it's usually for appliances. I had to run a new line through my basement for my drier when I bought the house, because the old lady who lived here before had her drier directly connected to the service. I figured where there is a will, there is a way. But alas, it sounds like a pile of crapola, so I'll wait until I can pick up the Koralia nano. I'm just hoping it is sufficient flow for my purposes. Link to comment
murphy_5 Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I have about a 50x turnover rate in a 29G bowfront and I have been keeping lps for a long time in that tank I tried SPS and all of them have not done too well...but if I keep putting more flow in my lps (frogspawns, torch...ie won't do to well.) I have tried an acro frag, and a type of monti. both not the hardest stuff, just giving some input for ya...if you want some sps in a lower turnover tank try the monti's its the better of the 2 for me and then you should have no problems with the lps if you keep everything else in check, lighting, filtration, wc's....so on and so forth Link to comment
Militant Jurist Posted December 8, 2008 Author Share Posted December 8, 2008 Ok, thanks! I think I'm going to give it a shot if I've got the cash for those powerheads. Link to comment
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