Time Without pump

[AMedinas]

Hi,
I need to take out my circulation pump Tunze 9105 to clean it and give a bath of vinager, i wanna know how many hours or days my SPS can survive without the pump.

Best regards.

 

[offroadodge]

as long as theres intank flow (ie Power heads) i would think atleast 1-3 days as long as the skimmer is online also. i have turned my tank off for a day to do the same and nothing happened. Turned it off at night to take pumps out and soak overnight then the next day put them back.

 

[AMedinas]

You let soak in vinager only by one nigth? In the morning you can scrape all the coralline algae?

Thanks, best regards.

 

[allsps40]

Agreed as long has you have flow in the tank you will be fine for a few days.

 

[flyyyguy]

your return pump is far more important. Its what keeps oxygen in the tank. You could run for weeks with just the return pump. Skimmer of course as well, but the skimmer doesnt do you any good if it isnt returned

there would come a point at whcih the lack of flow would start doing damage, but not in just a couple of days. Ideally you have a spare of sorts so you dont even notice its offline in case it breaks or needs more than routine maint