Hi everyone! Im new to MR and have found this website indispensable! Im already telling people at my LFS to check this website out! Anyway...a quick question about overall circulation for my aquarium (Im a cardiologist in trainingm afterall) haha. I'm just in the process of setting up a new 135 gallon tank with a 48gallon sump. The tank has two overflows (1.5inch drains and 1inch returns). Im using a turbo-sea 1270 pump to return the water to the main tank. I have 1inch pvc running out of the pump, then splits in two (using a T) to go to the two returns in the tank. Once in the tank it downgrades to 3.4" loc-line fittings ( I have about 6 of them in series) which enables me to direct the water into the tank.
Well here's the deal...I just filled up the tank and turned on the pump. Luckily, there were no leaks and all the plumbing works perfectly. But the flow out of the two returns seems very strong, and is shaking up all of the sand on the bottom. Is it best to add a loc-line y fitting so that i can direct the return in two different directions? And if i do this...do u think that'll give enough circulation in the tank, and thereby not needing any powerheads in the tank?? I plan to set up a all the liverock later this week (thanks wingoagency)...and in the end do mainly coral with some fish.
Thanks so much everyone! And I hope this will be the first of many conversations on here...
Doug
Well here's the deal...I just filled up the tank and turned on the pump. Luckily, there were no leaks and all the plumbing works perfectly. But the flow out of the two returns seems very strong, and is shaking up all of the sand on the bottom. Is it best to add a loc-line y fitting so that i can direct the return in two different directions? And if i do this...do u think that'll give enough circulation in the tank, and thereby not needing any powerheads in the tank?? I plan to set up a all the liverock later this week (thanks wingoagency)...and in the end do mainly coral with some fish.
Thanks so much everyone! And I hope this will be the first of many conversations on here...
Doug