DaddyMav
Member
I've been wanting to add a wavemaker to my tank for a while now. I guess I should have done some more research about all the components but I bought myself a Red Sea Wavemaster Pro a little prematurely. That's when I started researching the pumps that I would need and found out about controllable circulation pumps. I'm about to make the plunge and buy a couple of Koralia Evos but I'm not quite sure how big I should go.
I'm running mostly soft coral right now with a couple of BTA nems. I've heard that I want to aim for turnover in the range of 15-30x per hour. I know that I don't need to be at the high end of the scale for softies but I'd still like to get around 20-25x turnover per hour.
Right now my tank is a 55 gallon and I have my return pump (~250gph) a koralia 2 or 3 (750-1050gph) and an aqueon 500 (500gph). So I'm getting somewhere between 1500-1700gph full time right now. If I'm switching over to Koralia Evos to run on a wave maker, should I still consider the max GPH of the pumps or should I divide this since they won't be on all of the time?
Should I be looking at the 2 750gph pumps or 2 1050gph?
I'm running mostly soft coral right now with a couple of BTA nems. I've heard that I want to aim for turnover in the range of 15-30x per hour. I know that I don't need to be at the high end of the scale for softies but I'd still like to get around 20-25x turnover per hour.
Right now my tank is a 55 gallon and I have my return pump (~250gph) a koralia 2 or 3 (750-1050gph) and an aqueon 500 (500gph). So I'm getting somewhere between 1500-1700gph full time right now. If I'm switching over to Koralia Evos to run on a wave maker, should I still consider the max GPH of the pumps or should I divide this since they won't be on all of the time?
Should I be looking at the 2 750gph pumps or 2 1050gph?