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Originally Posted by Jaws
Well, I'll tell you what I have for water flow now:
I have 4 1" Seaswirls. One is plumbed to the return and is pushing about 1000 GPH. The other three are plumbed to a closed loop on an Ampmaster 3600 and are pushing about 1000 GPH through each. This is all I've had for about the last 4 months. In the last week I've added two of the Ecotech Vortechs to really try and jack the flow. They're each running at full out which is about 3000 GPH each. I would imagine this should be more than enough for a 180G tank. Since I've only been running it with this much flow for less than a week, could that be the problem or should corals start to respond to the high flow almost right away?
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thats only about a 55x turn over rate and thats not taking into account head loss through the sea swirls so I would say you could make that about a 40X turn over.. I would say that is a low water flow for a SPS tank personaly so it could have somthing to do with it.. I am running about 110X turn over in my tank and I think Brad is up around the same.
Steve
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