Thoughts on Reduced Flow at Night in SPS Tanks

[masharp1126]

As title suggests, looking for thoughts/suggestions/recommendations on reduced flow at night. It was recently mentioned to me by one of our sponsor vendors that a lot of people reduce their flow on SPS tanks at night. Just wondering if there truly is a benefit, other than savings on electric bill. I'll have 3 closed loops running on my 430g system and trying to decide if I should cut it back to only one of them running at night.

What's your opinion on the subject?

 

[ReefTECK]

I don't know if daytime/nighttime has anything to do with it really, although surely all wild reefs experience periods of lower and higher flow. Night time for me works out because my Vortecs have a preset for this disposition and it works great for feeding.

 

[sowellj]

Other than cost savings I don't see a benefit to this. It is not as if the tide turns off at night.