Too much water flow?

Just looking for opinions. After calculating the head with elbows and lock line I have 1280 an hour of flow, on a 90 gallon. Too Much? Too Little?

I have Koralia power heads as well for waves and an eheim 2217 going as well.

Anyone got an opinion, advice, comments, pros, cons

I have several acros, a giant sized red see naso, a blue hippatus, three centropyges, two damsels and a niger trigger that thinks its a tang, three shrimp and thats it, but plan on more corals.

Lights are two 250wt MH 10K and 2 PC 130wt and moon lights.

Tunze classic skimmer (the little one)

 

you have 90
and you want 50xgallonage=flow rate
so 90x50=4500 gph. so not enough
also people that have acros may double that sometimes, depending on how the corals respond.

fell free to up your flow rate a bunch

 

If your going to keep a lot of sps then it's way to little.

 

You have a niger trigger and it has not eaten your shrimp? Interesting. I would go with more flow as others have said.

 

its not a trigger but a tang trapped in a triggers body lol

 

oic lol

 

the trigger will only eat algae sheets, and lettuce, its an odd beast............

So where does one get a 9000 gph over flow box? I can run on down to the pool supply place and pick up a 2HP pentair pump no problem, of course with even 5000gph thats more flow than a hot tub.......

 

Use some power heads to great the flow you need

 

Yup, as 1313 stated, PHs in the DT. Your returns are only going to give you a fraction of your total (probably 20%). In a 90g, you would be aiming for about 1000GPH in returns (from two 600GPH capacity overflows) and the rest from, say, Koralia's. But the number does need to be higher. I am running 34x in my 90g right now and it is not enough. I am planning on adding two Koralia-4s (2400GPH additional) to bring my total up to around 60x in the future.

 

okay so the 1280 I have in flow through is good, that was my question.... if you add up everything I have well in excess of 6000 gph without the flow through the main pump off the sump. there are 6 koralia 4s on each end of the tank plus the a couple of 2's back behind the rock just to keep detritus out of there and prevent dead zones. Apparently the part about the Koralia wavemaker was unoticed.

Thanks PharmrJohn K+ for you

even 4500 gph of flow through the main pump didn't make any sense, and that was my question not total flow of everything combined. The acros have been in there quite a long time, and have substantial growth as well. The light is great, the chemistry perfect (a tad high now and then on calcium) 0ppm PHO, 0ppm Nitrogen of any sort. PH8.2 (fluctuates between 8.4 right before the lights go off and 8.0 before they come on. Guess I won't worry about just looked like it was really blowing stuff around in there, so a touch concerned.

My over flow handles the new pump just fine, had to add one more J tube for a total of three.