Next, I'm going to talk about circulation for this peninsula tank.
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So with this being my first peninsula reef tank,
I soon realized that there would be some challenges in terms of circulation.
This tank is six foot long by three foot wide.
And what I found out pretty soon is that it can be
tough to get sufficient flow all the way down to the end of the
tank.
If your goal is to have powerheads and recirculating pumps on just the
one end of the peninsula tank,
I really do not want to have recirculating pumps on the
sides, obviously, but really on this end panel, I want to keep it clean.
I did think a little bit about maybe running
some power cords on the edge of this trim right here and try to hide it,
but that's something I totally want to avoid.
So the first thing that I did,
what I thought would be enough flow I put in
for Ecotech and P forties,
and I played around with the different modes on those re-circulating pumps.
I initially tried the short pulse mode,
and that is really the,
the mode I've used ever since I started using the Ecotech
[inaudible] pumps. So I played around with that and for six foot long,
in terms of this tank, it just was not enough pumping power.
Then I try and reef crest, and this was all on 100%.
And then I also tried the, uh,
the Gyra mode and it just didn't seem to push enough
water all the way to the end. I mean,
it was sufficient for the first three, four,
maybe even five feet of this tank,
but it just wasn't doing the job. I have thought at the end of the tank.
So that was, that was the challenge.
And ultimately what I did was I swapped out two of the
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and once I put the two MPS sixties on the back panel here, again,
I started to play around with the different modes and the short pulse mode just
didn't seem to do the trick one with the two [inaudible] in place.
I did also play around with the reef crest mode.
Ultimately I went with the Jara mode for all of the,
um, the two MPS sixties,
as well as the two MP forties.
And I have them all set to 100% and I really do think that's going to do the
trick. I like what I'm seeing here in terms of the flow in the tank.
I am very happy that I went bare bottom.
I guess that was factored into my thinking in terms of this peninsula tank was
to go bare bottom.
Cause I knew I would need a lot of pumping power at, um,
one end of the tank and to,
to have all the power heads on that one end panel here,
kind of figure that all the sand would get blown away on, on this end.
And it would be kind of tough to keep it in place. And that really was the, uh,
the case I believe. So I'm happy with that decision to go bare bottom.
One more thing to mention about the modes on the Ecotech. Uh
[inaudible] I did play around with the title swell mode and actually that,
that was generating too much surgeon and random flow in here. I was,
it was getting to the point where I was, where it was cranked up,
where some of the water was getting close to going over the side of the Euro
bracing. So it was, it was moving pretty good. So I really do think the, uh,
the Gyra mode is the perfect mode for this tank. Well,
I need more pumping power down the road once coral started to grow in and, and,
you know, start, uh, losing flow due to the growth of the corals. I dunno.
Maybe do I want to potentially think about swapping out the two MP
forties at the backend of this panel here for another couple of MPS
sixties? I mean, geez, if I do that,
things are really be cranking at this end of the tank,
and I sort of worry about being able to have corals on
this part of the reef. Finally,
I want to talk about my return pumps.
I have two Royal exclusive red dragon, 300 watt high pressure,
2,400 gallon per hour pumps.
I like to have two pumps for a couple of different reasons.
One is for redundancy in case I have an issue with one of those pumps.
I have an extra one on hand,
but I also liked to plumb my return pumps into a one of
them into a frag tank.
And I also have another one plumbed into a water change system.
So I do have a lot of pumping power coming from those pumps,
but I only have them running at 50% or 50 Watts
for each of those pumps.
So I do have more giddy-up if I need it with those pumps,
but at this point they are certainly supplementing the job
that the [inaudible] are doing anyway,
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