Does anyone throttle back their Vortechs?

JG1 said:
Jeez, must be a hurricane in your tank!

Do you have ANY lps?
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Yes, a plate, 8 or 9 acans, couple hammers, couple anemones and some other stuff.


Well thought our chatotic flow can make a tank handle massive amounts of GPH without making any corals uncomfortable. I get great PE from them all.
 
I have an 90G with 2 mp40w's and 2 mp10es'; I run the mp40w's on Lagoon @ ~70-75% and the mp10's on Lagoon ~50-60% (they are focused behind most of the rockwork). My tank is SPS dominated. Based on the current placement of the vortechs, if i bump up the flow,a good amount of sand is displaced.
 
Until the fish are stuck to the glass you can never have enough flow. Running 2 mp40s on Reefcrest Anti Sync at 100% on a 110g. Corals love the random flow. Also running a BB so no issue with sand blowing around.
 
I have an MP40 and two MP10's that I run at 100% on my 57 Illuminata. Our club hosted Dana Riddle last fall and he did a presentation on flow. According to some of the discussions that we had, the more flow the better for SPS dominated systems.

An article on flow by Dana was just printed in Advanced Aquarist magazine.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/1/aafeature
 
I typically run mine at 100% (mp10 and mp40) however when introduce something new sometimes find i have to dial back the mp40. Tanks a bit on the small side for 2 tunzees and 2 vortechs ;)
 
I have to 2 Mp60's on Reefcrest in my 265 and its great. Fish love the random flow, the more "Organized flow" you can get the better IMO
 
Getting ready to build a 120 (48x24x24). Was thinking of two mp40's versus one mp60. Mainly due to cost of buying 2 mp60's. Now I'm thinking I just need to spend the cash and get the 2 mp60's. Planning on mostly SPS. Guess I could just add the second mp60 later, but it may pass the wife's budget screening now at initial build! Lol!
 
cediss said:
Getting ready to build a 120 (48x24x24). Was thinking of two mp40's versus one mp60. Mainly due to cost of buying 2 mp60's. Now I'm thinking I just need to spend the cash and get the 2 mp60's. Planning on mostly SPS. Guess I could just add the second mp60 later, but it may pass the wife's budget screening now at initial build! Lol!
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JMO but two mp60's on a 120 is gonna be overkill
 
I have 2 mp40's @ 100% in my 180 AG and works great. My frags are finally getting big enough to impede flow in the middle, so I just got a see swirl that will add some more random flow in that dead area.

not sure if anyone uses the night mode option, mine goes into night mode around 10pm.
 
sullyfish said:
I have 2 mp40's @ 100% in my 180 AG and works great. My frags are finally getting big enough to impede flow in the middle, so I just got a see swirl that will add some more random flow in that dead area.

not sure if anyone uses the night mode option, mine goes into night mode around 10pm.
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We need pics
 
I tried the vortechs back in Reef Crest mode @ 100% and I don't think the tank had enough flow. Put them back in NTM @ 75% and it seems perfect.
 
Wow! Glad I asked. I didn't think I'd get that response. I'll do more research then. I was thinking when my sticks fill the tank I would need that much flow! Thanks for the advice.
 
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