skippy12094
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hey all,
I am having some difficulty in deciding how to design my new system. I recently bought a new 90 gallon with one corner over flow. The corner overflow is a 1" bulk head. I think if I remember right 1" can only handle about 600-700 GPH but Im really not sure (more would be better). If this is the case then the flow though the aquarium is only about 6-7 times an hour. I have read that some people like their aquarium to turn over 25-30 times an hour. Going by these numbers I would need somewhere in the neighborhood of 2250-2700 GPH. My question is how to accomplish this if my over flow will only handle 600-700 GPH; this leaves me behind about 2100 on the high side. What are my options? I could use a closed loop but I really don't want to drill a hole in the new tank, I could put in a bunch of power heads but if I go that route I should get a wave maker but that gets costly and I don't have a lot of money to work with right now. What I was going to do was purchase the blueline 70HD. I was thinking I could use this pump as my return and then TEE off of that and run 1" PVC up to the top of the tank then reduce it to 1/2", run that down into the tank and I was going to TEE off of that to the back corners, use line loc and have to jets. Then run another piece of PVC from the same TEE to the front of the tank, use one more TEE and go to the front corners and again use line loc and have two more jets and that would keep water moving really good. I would also use valves to slow the flow from the corner jets down if I had to to keep thing from blowing all over. Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish the flow I want in an easy not too expensive way and still make my corals and fish happy again? Thanks
I am having some difficulty in deciding how to design my new system. I recently bought a new 90 gallon with one corner over flow. The corner overflow is a 1" bulk head. I think if I remember right 1" can only handle about 600-700 GPH but Im really not sure (more would be better). If this is the case then the flow though the aquarium is only about 6-7 times an hour. I have read that some people like their aquarium to turn over 25-30 times an hour. Going by these numbers I would need somewhere in the neighborhood of 2250-2700 GPH. My question is how to accomplish this if my over flow will only handle 600-700 GPH; this leaves me behind about 2100 on the high side. What are my options? I could use a closed loop but I really don't want to drill a hole in the new tank, I could put in a bunch of power heads but if I go that route I should get a wave maker but that gets costly and I don't have a lot of money to work with right now. What I was going to do was purchase the blueline 70HD. I was thinking I could use this pump as my return and then TEE off of that and run 1" PVC up to the top of the tank then reduce it to 1/2", run that down into the tank and I was going to TEE off of that to the back corners, use line loc and have to jets. Then run another piece of PVC from the same TEE to the front of the tank, use one more TEE and go to the front corners and again use line loc and have two more jets and that would keep water moving really good. I would also use valves to slow the flow from the corner jets down if I had to to keep thing from blowing all over. Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish the flow I want in an easy not too expensive way and still make my corals and fish happy again? Thanks