Which Tunze for 55g???

[Joe LoPresti]

Hi Roger,
I have been reading through these posts tonite and I have definitely settled on Tunze. They sound like a good quality product and you seem like a great company rep to deal with!! Here's my question, I currently have a 55 gallon reef tank with 6 (yes 6) Minijet powerheads positioned at various locations within my tank. They still don't generate enough current (partly due to my initial poor aquascaping). I was wondering if you might recommend to me what type of Tunze would work well for my tank. I was thinking of replacing them with two 6025's. Is that enough flow, too little flow or too much?? Any input you could provide would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks!!!!

 

[rvitko]

Tell me more about what you keep and type of sand bed? Also, is this a standard 4ft 55?

 

[GSMguy]

ill give it a shot i would say for a 4ft tank the minimum would be 2x6045 or ultimatly 2x6055 with the multicontroller
if by any chance this is a BB sps tank one 6100 could work

 

[Joe LoPresti]

Thanks Roger,
Here's some of the details... I have a standard 55, 4 ft. in length. It has a 2 in. sand bed and I keep a variety of corals. I mainly have xenia (everywhere, lol), mushrooms, zoos, 2 branching hammers, 2 frogspawns, one candycane and one pipe organ. I also have a plating montipora frag and an encrusting montipora. There are only 4 fish in the tank, a purple tang, a maroon clown, a 6 line wrass and one leftover green chromis damsel. Hope that info. helps. Also, I do not have a refugium or sump, I run a skimmer and an Eheim with nothing in it but Chemipur, Rowaphos and filter floss. Thanks again for your quick response. I am really looking forward to purchasing these products!!!

 

[GSMguy]

2 6045 should be perfect but you could get away with more

 

[rvitko]

I would say the ideal is 2 6055 and the 7095 controller. The budget set up would be 2 6045.