Beananimal tank plumbing?

[Chaka]

Beananimal

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Just wanted to throw my two cents in...This thing is awesome. I have personally witnessed the emergency part working and makes no noise. You will not regret putting this on your system. Might take some additional holes and pipe, but well worth it.

 

[Reefahholic]

awesome...yeah, you can't go worng with beananimal...the dude knows his stuff.

thanks for the heads up!

 

[Blown76mav]

very cool...you did a lot of work, but the tank looks great!

i like how you used your old tank for your sump....it's huge...lots of room!

corals are looking awesome!


yeah, I did not know that about the returns....seems like most put their returns on the top of the water line. I guess they are trying to avoid the whole siphon downfall. however, the plus is that you are providing more flow around the tank. I plan on going with LED'S to avoid having to buy a lot of fans...is it nessessary to have more than one if you have a good GPH overflow that generates a lot of flow through your returns, and you have a strong return pump? are the fans mostly used to eliminate dead areas or just to blow "flow" on your corals? Im still a little confused about that part..

You can have just one return if you want but I'm not a big proponet of using the return pump as a primary source of turnover. I have a big return pump because thats what was on the 150 with the sump in the basement. If you leave the returns above the water line you will end up with saltcreep everywhere. Not to mention the splashing noise would be terrible, making the beananimal return a waste of time imo. And if your going LED's I'm sure you don't want them splashed with saltwater. While most look like they are above the waterline most use a linelock end below the waterline so they can a little more control of where the flow goes.

The powerheads generate currents in the tank that make the fish have to swim harder, which in turn makes them healthier. They also help keep detritus from settling and causing nitrate buildups (though it can still happen), and they aid in surface airation. Most try for a 5-10x turnover rate (tank size x 5-10).

More flow is also healthy for some corals, most SPS like a lot of flow while others like medium to low flow.

 

[Reefahholic]

ok...thanks, im learning im learning!