Last Shout - Posted by: mattswlon - Monday, 06 September 2010 15:49
for sale a lovely group of 11 tropheus red rainbow kasanga in london, think is 2 male rest females. London 07543664965.
 
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> whats the flow in your tank
liters per hour water flow / tank size
water flow in liters per hour
under 2000 liters/h [ 7 ] ** [9.86%]
2000 - 3000 liters/h [ 15 ] ** [21.13%]
3000 - 4000 l/h [ 11 ] ** [15.49%]
4000 - 5000 l/h [ 10 ] ** [14.08%]
5000 - 7000 l/h [ 5 ] ** [7.04%]
over 7000 [ 23 ] ** [32.39%]
tank size
under 50gallon [ 1 ] ** [1.43%]
50-100 g [ 24 ] ** [34.29%]
100-150 g [ 19 ] ** [27.14%]
150-220 g [ 19 ] ** [27.14%]
over 220 g [ 7 ] ** [10.00%]
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post Jun 29 2010, 02:11 PM
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Im running 3 MP40w's and a mag18 return pump on my 4' 168g which is about 34x turn over. They are all tuned right back, but I will never go with anything else other than maybe a tunze or 2 but that will be on my reef tank for controlability with some of the new controllers that are out there. The battery back up is a great feature I would like to get me 1 of thoes to put on mine.






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post Jun 29 2010, 02:23 PM
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QUOTE(parkinsn @ Jun 29 2010, 02:11 PM) *
Im running 3 MP40w's and a mag18 return pump on my 4' 168g which is about 34x turn over. They are all tuned right back, but I will never go with anything else other than maybe a tunze or 2 but that will be on my reef tank for controlability with some of the new controllers that are out there. The battery back up is a great feature I would like to get me 1 of thoes to put on mine.


Good action on 3!

You got the new brain for them or are these the older ones?






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post Jul 29 2010, 10:00 AM
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QUOTE(Mr. Johnson @ Jun 29 2010, 03:23 PM) *
QUOTE(parkinsn @ Jun 29 2010, 02:11 PM) *
Im running 3 MP40w's and a mag18 return pump on my 4' 168g which is about 34x turn over. They are all tuned right back, but I will never go with anything else other than maybe a tunze or 2 but that will be on my reef tank for controlability with some of the new controllers that are out there. The battery back up is a great feature I would like to get me 1 of thoes to put on mine.


Good action on 3!

You got the new brain for them or are these the older ones?



They are the old ones (2nd gen I believe) not the metal and not the new ES. I was thinking about getting the ES controler's for all of them. But on a FW tank I dont think what there is really any advantage to getting them. That and its $300 do do all 3 lol.




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post Aug 1 2010, 01:51 AM
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I have the ES brain on one of the 4 mp40w I got.

For what we do, you don't need the ES.






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post Aug 28 2010, 08:31 AM
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QUOTE(Markie @ Oct 23 2009, 06:50 PM) *
IMO it just doesn't make sense to me to have high flow in a troph tank. When I did SPS in a reef it did to remove debris, circulate food and reduce algae. But in a troph tank, I like it when the crap settles because I am just going to siphon it in a weekly water change (40%). I have no flow other than a sponge filter bubble stream and a hang on filter with carbon.

I see the most hard core Troph keepers/breeders running spong filters only. So I just follow that success. Flow cannot be that important to a troph.



this is what i have noticed too, and i have as well been following this method with success, I have two sponges per 120g tank, each rated for 125 gallons, running off a very strong whisper 100 - there is plenty of surface agitation for O2




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post Aug 28 2010, 11:21 AM
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I notice my fish school better with higher flow.






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post Aug 28 2010, 12:13 PM
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In a show tank, having flow is a plus. Breeder tanks with sponge filters has different goals, pump out fry and stock relatively low numbers.

Both methods work!




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post Aug 28 2010, 01:28 PM
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I actually just like expensive equipment.






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post Aug 28 2010, 09:36 PM
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QUOTE(Mr. Johnson @ Aug 28 2010, 01:28 PM) *
I actually just like expensive equipment.


That's cuz you a balla!




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