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Project 360 - Water Movement

Posted in Project 360 - Flow, Project 360 by Jacob on the July 6th, 2007

Water Movement

If you’ve been following along you might remember that I’m trying to keep this system as energy efficient as I can, within reason. The biggest potential energy consumers in an aquarium system are those that are always running - the pumps. One thing that most reef keepers know these days is that more flow is better, usually we shoot for a turnover rate of 20-40 times the tank volume, and in some cases upwards of 60 times the tank volume. In this case I wanted to shoot for about 30x turn over (return pump included) and the most energy efficient way to do this was using Tunze Stream powerheads.

Stack of Tunzes!
Tunzes

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