pblogic
Member
Hi there!
Let me preface this by saying I have done a great deal of reading both online as well as two salt water and reef books. I have a pretty good understanding of most of what I need to do and I"m experienced at keeping a nice fresh water planted tank. I understand things like filtration and bioload and cycling just fine. I'm just looking for some equipment advice because this is my first salt water build.
So,
My setup is a 1/2 acrylic 72G with a 1 inch center overflow which I have built a 1 inch durso stand pipe for. It will drain into a 32x16x16 sump with baffles and bubble trap etc and return on a 3/4 inch return up about 4 feet to a return a few inches from the top of the tank. two 90 degrees at max. 2 unions. Through schedule 80
I'm looking for a good return pump that that is energy efficient. I would really prefer submersible. I live in Michigan, and the tank is on the lower level and I will light with t5's. Heat with almost never, ever be an issue FYI. It stays very cool where I live for almost all of the year and the tank will only experienced very muted sunlight for a small part of the day.
I've looked at mag 9.5 and mag 12... I know I would have to decrease flow from the 12 but would rather do that than have too little flow. I'm looking for any other submersible pump suggestions, as well as powerhead suggestions for creating proper flow inside. I will be going FOWLR for 6 months or so before I add any corals fyi. I don't care for eheim products, though I know everyone seems to love them. I had an ecco cannister that broke and on top of it being faulty Eheim's customer support would not even send me a small plastic piece to repair it, though it broke due to no fault of my own. Hence I don't care for the company and won't be supporting their products, just an fyi to avoid any eheim recommendations.
Thanks for any feedback, I appreciate it.
Let me preface this by saying I have done a great deal of reading both online as well as two salt water and reef books. I have a pretty good understanding of most of what I need to do and I"m experienced at keeping a nice fresh water planted tank. I understand things like filtration and bioload and cycling just fine. I'm just looking for some equipment advice because this is my first salt water build.
So,
My setup is a 1/2 acrylic 72G with a 1 inch center overflow which I have built a 1 inch durso stand pipe for. It will drain into a 32x16x16 sump with baffles and bubble trap etc and return on a 3/4 inch return up about 4 feet to a return a few inches from the top of the tank. two 90 degrees at max. 2 unions. Through schedule 80
I'm looking for a good return pump that that is energy efficient. I would really prefer submersible. I live in Michigan, and the tank is on the lower level and I will light with t5's. Heat with almost never, ever be an issue FYI. It stays very cool where I live for almost all of the year and the tank will only experienced very muted sunlight for a small part of the day.
I've looked at mag 9.5 and mag 12... I know I would have to decrease flow from the 12 but would rather do that than have too little flow. I'm looking for any other submersible pump suggestions, as well as powerhead suggestions for creating proper flow inside. I will be going FOWLR for 6 months or so before I add any corals fyi. I don't care for eheim products, though I know everyone seems to love them. I had an ecco cannister that broke and on top of it being faulty Eheim's customer support would not even send me a small plastic piece to repair it, though it broke due to no fault of my own. Hence I don't care for the company and won't be supporting their products, just an fyi to avoid any eheim recommendations.
Thanks for any feedback, I appreciate it.