What's your total flow rate?

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  1. dixiedog

    dixiedog Coral Banded Shrimp

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    20x, 30x, 50x?

    There are many opinions out there, and I personally believe more is better until something you want to keep is suffering from it. But I'm curious as to what others are doing. :)
     
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  2. dirtydavenkc

    dirtydavenkc Purple Spiny Lobster

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    im at 37 right now but alot of people tell me thats too much
     
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  3. iLLwiLL

    iLLwiLL Sailfin Tang

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    i'm at 35x and couldn't see adding any more and keeping softies / leathers.

    ~Will.
     
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  4. Daniel072

    Daniel072 Giant Squid

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    right around 50. I'm thinking of pulling my sand out to add more flow. Your flow rate really depends on the corals that you are keeping.
     
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  5. AZDesertRat

    AZDesertRat Giant Squid

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    About 40x right now.
     
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  6. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    Mine peaks at about 50x and Im still keeping softies in there. The key is chaotic flow. Gives the softies a break from high flow but still peaks high enough to keep sps. I have everything from frogspawn to zoas and shrooms to acros monti and an open brain living happily together.
     
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  7. 71sbeetle

    71sbeetle Fire Shrimp

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    I have 1 640ghp, 1 320gph and 2 600gph so total of 2160gph in a 65 gallong tank (about 55-58 gallons of water) so about 35x
    all with softies, LPS and SPS, fishes, and inverts, and everyone seems happy
     
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  8. ZachB

    ZachB Giant Squid

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    Assuming a loss of about 1,000 gph from my Dart due to bends / 90's etc. in my closed loop, + sump return, I have about 40x in the display. Maybe a bit more.
     
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  9. invert phil

    invert phil Millepora

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    I'm running approx 36x with softies; leathers, mushrooms, star polyps and zoas. Plus I have cup corals to.

    p.s. flow is chaotic with wave makers and closed loop on a SCWD.
     
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  10. zjpeter

    zjpeter Ritteri Anemone

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    i quick estimation puts me around 38x (very rough, my math sucks).

    i've got 3 koralias on timers so the knocking everytime they turn on and off is a little obnoxious but the corals are doing well....
     
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