Abalone joe
08/03/2006, 06:46 AM
Heres the planned setup.
The main tank is a 29. The sump/refugium is a 20 long divided into a 15G cheato fuge and a 5G sump (approx. 3G of useful volume). I have a coralife Super Skimmer 65. The sump will be further divided so that the water entering the from the main tank will feed the skimmer pump with a consistant height of water. The skimmer outflow will flow into the cheato fuge. Thru a modified stand pipe that collects water from mid level, The fuge outflow to the sump will be equal to the skimmers input. There may be a supplimental circulation setup for the fuge that would be independant from the rest of the system.
The system pump is planned as a quite one 3000 with a rated output of 780 GPH. At appox. 3.5 feet of head the output is about 610 GPH . There will also be a closed loop with a SCWD. The CL will have a dedicated Quite one 2200 with a rated output of 581 GPH. After the head produced by the SCWD I estimate the actual output to be around 520 GPH .
Keep in mind that the fuge in effect that has a flow that is completely indepoendant from the Main tank/sump. That puts the Total flow in the main tank/sump at 1130 GPH or a total turnover of about 35 times turnover .
Is this to much system flow? If so what would you suggest as alternative comparably priced system and closed loop pumps? keep in mind that i need in-line pumps. The mag series has a bad leak history so I would like to avoid them.
The main tank is a 29. The sump/refugium is a 20 long divided into a 15G cheato fuge and a 5G sump (approx. 3G of useful volume). I have a coralife Super Skimmer 65. The sump will be further divided so that the water entering the from the main tank will feed the skimmer pump with a consistant height of water. The skimmer outflow will flow into the cheato fuge. Thru a modified stand pipe that collects water from mid level, The fuge outflow to the sump will be equal to the skimmers input. There may be a supplimental circulation setup for the fuge that would be independant from the rest of the system.
The system pump is planned as a quite one 3000 with a rated output of 780 GPH. At appox. 3.5 feet of head the output is about 610 GPH . There will also be a closed loop with a SCWD. The CL will have a dedicated Quite one 2200 with a rated output of 581 GPH. After the head produced by the SCWD I estimate the actual output to be around 520 GPH .
Keep in mind that the fuge in effect that has a flow that is completely indepoendant from the Main tank/sump. That puts the Total flow in the main tank/sump at 1130 GPH or a total turnover of about 35 times turnover .
Is this to much system flow? If so what would you suggest as alternative comparably priced system and closed loop pumps? keep in mind that i need in-line pumps. The mag series has a bad leak history so I would like to avoid them.