Well, I have a couple of dead spots that are driving me crazy. every once in awhile I find a small amount of cyano that will build up in these spots. I had a piece of it stuck in one of the corals and it made a big dead spot.
I Have a few other area's in the tank with very slow flow as well. I am gonna have to add some more power heads to the equasion.
Currently I am running 4 Tunze 6105's on a Tunze control / wave maker (7095). They kick out some good flow for sure maxing out at 3400 gph. They are able to give a fairly wide stream that reaches about 5' accross the tank before petering out. They have a small amount that makes it all the way accross the tank, but it's not much.
I also have a little flow from two Waterblaster 5000 rated at 1300gph. I figure I'm getting between 900-1000 gph out of each of those.
The tank is 72" x 31" x 26" tall.
So the two options I am considering at the moment are either.......
1) Buy two more Tunze 6105's and to add approx 6800gph ......or
2) Buy one of the new Tunze 6255's at approx 4800gph. However this is a much wider and more turbulent flow pattern that would likely reach the other side quite nicely. If I did this I would move one of my current pumps the the other side having three 6105's opposite the new 6255 and the other 6105. I think having three on one side and the new more powerful pump on the other would make for a nice random flow (I will also be upgrading the controller to the 7096 which has more flow patterns including a syncronized wavemaker).
Each option runs about the same price. At the moment I have pretty much decided to just go with the two 6105's. A bit more flow and more options to move the flow. However I thought I would throw the questions out there in case these newer "wider" flow pumps might be worth the crazy cost?
Here is a link to a YouTube video showing the new 6255. He compares it to the Votec MP40, but clearly it is more appropriately compared to the MP60. But it shows some good water movement. http://youtu.be/1Lb3UPjJCuk
Any thoughts? Thanks.
I Have a few other area's in the tank with very slow flow as well. I am gonna have to add some more power heads to the equasion.
Currently I am running 4 Tunze 6105's on a Tunze control / wave maker (7095). They kick out some good flow for sure maxing out at 3400 gph. They are able to give a fairly wide stream that reaches about 5' accross the tank before petering out. They have a small amount that makes it all the way accross the tank, but it's not much.
I also have a little flow from two Waterblaster 5000 rated at 1300gph. I figure I'm getting between 900-1000 gph out of each of those.
The tank is 72" x 31" x 26" tall.
So the two options I am considering at the moment are either.......
1) Buy two more Tunze 6105's and to add approx 6800gph ......or
2) Buy one of the new Tunze 6255's at approx 4800gph. However this is a much wider and more turbulent flow pattern that would likely reach the other side quite nicely. If I did this I would move one of my current pumps the the other side having three 6105's opposite the new 6255 and the other 6105. I think having three on one side and the new more powerful pump on the other would make for a nice random flow (I will also be upgrading the controller to the 7096 which has more flow patterns including a syncronized wavemaker).
Each option runs about the same price. At the moment I have pretty much decided to just go with the two 6105's. A bit more flow and more options to move the flow. However I thought I would throw the questions out there in case these newer "wider" flow pumps might be worth the crazy cost?
Here is a link to a YouTube video showing the new 6255. He compares it to the Votec MP40, but clearly it is more appropriately compared to the MP60. But it shows some good water movement. http://youtu.be/1Lb3UPjJCuk
Any thoughts? Thanks.