turnover rate?
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panic
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Water movement is more important than turnover, and random water movement even more so, along with good placement. A fully stocked and matured sps tank will react differently with 40x turnover than a new reef with only frags. I have 40x turnover in my reef that has random flow and mostly frags, but will increase flow as the corals mature and create dead spots.
Kinetic
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I'm going with 80x turnover rate in my upcoming sps tank, and I currently have 50x turnover in my mixed coral tank.
40x would probably be good, but it's all about turbulent flow and moving water around corals. 20x is probably too low, ideally you want a lot more flow.
I personally want more than 70x flow because:
1. I like to see hermits fly across the tank and crash against the rock
2. It keeps detritus from building up anywhere
3. SPS love the turbulence (as long as it's turbulent, not necessarily random linear)
4. my zoos love flow too
5. it's fun watching my fish fly around the tank to fight against the current.
why not have high flow? makes everything that much more exciting.
40x would probably be good, but it's all about turbulent flow and moving water around corals. 20x is probably too low, ideally you want a lot more flow.
I personally want more than 70x flow because:
1. I like to see hermits fly across the tank and crash against the rock
2. It keeps detritus from building up anywhere
3. SPS love the turbulence (as long as it's turbulent, not necessarily random linear)
4. my zoos love flow too
5. it's fun watching my fish fly around the tank to fight against the current.
why not have high flow? makes everything that much more exciting.
blindskater02
Premium Member
LOL I personally like reason number one as well!! =)
REEF-DADDY
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Everytime a hermit wanders in front of my low eductor I get a cheap thrill.
onehundred20
In Memoriam
that is great, im doing a closed loop next time for just this reason.
Kinetic
Active member
I have my pumps on a remote switch, so what I do sometimes, is turn the pumps off, and put a few frozen food pieces in front of the outlet, and I wait for all the nassarius, hermits, and fish to come to the outlet, and then BAM i shoot them all over the place. It's so great! I actually chipped my acrylic with a hermit hitting the front of the tank =(( cruel? Not really... they aren't harmed =)
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