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04-06-2004, 07:47 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Woodridge, IL,Illinois
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 |  How fast water flow ???
Hi all I have a refu that I can control the water flow
How fast should it run trough my refu? :'(
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10 months old 75Gal 20Gal sump/refu 425W MH and 40W actinic, 3 power-heads and one return pump total of 1600Gph Venturi style skimmer rated for 150gal, 100Lb of LR 100lb of LS 1 Yellow tang,1Blue tang, and 1 cleaner warsse
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04-06-2004, 08:12 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Romeoville, IL,Illinois
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
I am in the process of setting mine up too and I have been told that 5 times the water volume is what I should shoot for....Hope that helps.
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Tank #1: 120 AGA FO (started 1/26/04)w/Eheim 2220 and 2217 : 1 Lion &&&&Tank #2: 125 AGA Reef (in building process)
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04-07-2004, 03:06 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Woodridge, IL,Illinois
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
you mean 5 times per hour?
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04-08-2004, 05:46 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
My flow in the sump/refugium is 300 GPH on an 80 gallon display or approximately 4 timees turnover per hour. HTH _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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04-08-2004, 06:37 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Woodridge, IL,Illinois
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
Ok but your sump is not 80 gallon I think that what they are talking is the 5 times turnover trough their sump/refu which in your case should be 150Gph becouse you have 30 gal sump/refu | |
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04-08-2004, 06:48 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
80 gallon display with 30 gallon sump/refugium. *300 GPH. *Baffles reduce the flow in the refugium. HTH | |
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04-08-2004, 11:38 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Romeoville, IL,Illinois
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
Craig, I don't understand!! If you have 300 GPH that is the flow... No matter how many baffles you put in the FLOW will still be 300 gph or 10 times the volume per hour, correct? While I will have 900 gph hour flowing into my sump, only 70 gph will be flowing through my 14 gallon refugium, the remainder will by pass the refu and go into the skimmer area. | |
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04-08-2004, 02:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: How fast water flow ???
Baffled, eh? LOL
The water flows over the top of the baffles in the fuge at 300 GPH . The baffles are the same heigth. I drilled holes in the sides of the baffles to get some cross current. | |
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