Flow

[svreef]

Two things.

1) This is a great video about Gonis.

2) I’m really struggling to get the right flow in my tank and I believe it is affecting my livestock to some degree. I have a split return with dual RFGs running at around 1800 gph. And I have two Neptune WAV pumps, one on each side of the overflow box. These pumps have a range of 1800-4000 gph. This is in a 5’ peninsula tank.

I love the wave-type flow that can be seen in the video above, but I just can’t seem to get that to work.

Any ideas or suggestions?

I know this is very vague but I don’t know what else to try short of having someone with experience come to my house and help me figure it out.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Well just looking at some of his other videos what I can piece together is he's running 2 Jebao DCP-5000s (although one of them maybe a feed pump for a frag tank or something else in the sump (needs to work on his plumbing, some other Jebao DC pump in the tank (it's near his overflow) and 2 Tunze pumps (unknown model) one in the back corner pointing down and forward, and the other in the front shooting straight across. I don't see the water level oscillating at all, so no wavebox going on, but really unsure how much of a pulse he has going on.

I'm guessing all your flow is fairly localized due to it being a peninsula tank, and that one thing I hate about peninsula tanks, if they're long you have to put some flow on a side that kind of negates the whole point of doing a peninsula.

 

[Coral reefer]

I have no experience with each pumps, maybe you could see what a couple of the biggest gyres look like if anyone could let you borrow them for an hour or so?