water movement for 90 gallon rectangle

[clownchic]

I'm in the process of setting up a 90 gallon oceanic show tank (48X18X25) and want to keep sps and lps. I purchased a coralife 2X250 HQI, 2X96 PC, 4 lunar light aqualight pro light so I think my lighting should be adequate (I hope!). Anyway, I've only had smaller nano reefs up til now with soft corals etc. What are some options for water movement in a 90 gallon tank? I do not have a refugium or sump. I have an AquaC Remora Pro with Mag 3 for skimming. My space is somewhat limited. I will have room in the tank and in the cabinet stand below the tank. Thanks so much for any advice!

 

[clownchic]

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[s10willy]

Are you looking for powerheads or is a closed loop an option? I am about to remove the Seio units from my 90 and use a closed loop owered by a Dart pump. I would recommend having the tank drilled if possible.

 

[Andy O]

I second having the tank drilled if possible. You could run something like an oceans motions which would give you a lot of flow and limit the clutter in the tank. Another good option if you don't mind things in tank are the Tunzes.

 

[scuba4ever]

I have a 90 AGA and I'm using 2 x maxijets (1200) hooked up to the Aquacontroller Jr for wavemaking....and it works pretty good for me

 

[clownchic]

I will probably go with powerheads just because that's what I understand. Drilling sounds complicated to me but I've never actually looked at that option.

 

[Wildeone]

I have the same question for my 65G tank, I am designing a 20G sump / refugium and I cannot figure out how much flow I should run through the sump, is 10X per hour too much or overkill? I plan on using 2 or 3 1200 powerheads, is that to much?

I have attached a copy of my design in pdf, any input would be AWESOME!

Thanks!

 

[oct2274]

I bought a 75 g oceanic and they told me it could not be drilled cause they spider when you drill them. I returned that and am having a custom 54x20x22 acrylic tank being built.......they can however drill them at the factory. depending on how much flow you want and what you want to keep you could easily go 40x on the flow for coral........try a sequence dart