Flow rate v. turnover

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  1. nanoreefer555

    nanoreefer555 Fire Shrimp

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    Can anybody tell me how to calculate a turnover rate that takes into account my powerheads?
     
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  2. 10acrewoods

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    would it be your flow divided by your tank size? If your pump is pushing 150 gph and your tank size is 20 then your turn over rate is 7.5 or 7.5 times in an hour. if I under stand correctly. I am probably wrong.
     
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  3. 10acrewoods

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    FLOW RATE CALCULATOR found this and it might help. flow rate is according to this site is the gallons per hour.
     
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  4. Peredhil

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    Yes Gallons Per Hour.

    Take the GPH of each of your things (filters, pumps, powerheads, whatever) and add them together. Divide that by your gallons. Aiming for 42 - 50x
     
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  5. nanoreefer555

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    Perfect! Thank you very much, that is exactly what I was looking for.
     
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  6. nanoreefer555

    nanoreefer555 Fire Shrimp

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    One last question: do you divide by the system gallonage or the main tank?
     
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  7. 10acrewoods

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    system if you just do the main tank then you will not get total flow rate.
     
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    I ment turn over sorry
     
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  9. nanoreefer555

    nanoreefer555 Fire Shrimp

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    Great. Turned out to be 64x. I am even surprised by that number. It must vary a bit now though because I have some of the PHs on a rotation. Still, I am very happy with that because the only thing that is really getting blown around hard is my pipe-organ. That stuff loves it--I have never seen anything reproduce as fast.
     
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  10. Aqualung

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    62 here! Power house!
     
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