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It took a long time to get the tank up from room temp(20.6 C) to 26. So I double checked my heating choice. I concluded I'm on the low size wattage wise. I have 2 150W finnex titanium. I placed them on the baffle of the first section of the sump the thinking being that it would provide maximum water flow over the heaters themselves. I'm sure they'll hold it fine now that it's up to temp but over the next month I'll be adding a 55 gallon display fuge and a 29 gallon cryptic fuge. Using the old rule of thumb I should be using a least 630 Watts minimum and possibly as much as 1000W. The challenge is fitting them in. The 150W heaters are the perfect height for the sump. I have a 300W kicking around somewhere but it's taller than the sump and so the top would stick above the baffle. I could also go with two more 150w on a second inkbird which would definitely give me redundancy. I'll probably go with the 300W because I already have it, but it won't be on the inkbird because the plugs are already taken up by the 2 150s.
After watching the new BRStv video on flow I'm having to rethink mine. I was going by a 10x flow rate and used 2x sicce voyager3(1200pgh). Which gives me a capacity of <20x but since they since they alternate on a wavemaker its back down to <10x. I do have my returns plumbed through a couple sea swirls and added RFG nozzles on them which should help with random flow effects but my return pumps are only rated at around 870gph each(although throttled around a third down with a ball valve and adding head pressure and a reduction from the RFG nozzles likely considerably less). Considering moving the Sicce pumps to the back wall but still near the ends and angling them towards one another vectored toward the front center. Then placing two icecap gyre pumps on the ends to boost overall flow without blasting anything.
After watching the new BRStv video on flow I'm having to rethink mine. I was going by a 10x flow rate and used 2x sicce voyager3(1200pgh). Which gives me a capacity of <20x but since they since they alternate on a wavemaker its back down to <10x. I do have my returns plumbed through a couple sea swirls and added RFG nozzles on them which should help with random flow effects but my return pumps are only rated at around 870gph each(although throttled around a third down with a ball valve and adding head pressure and a reduction from the RFG nozzles likely considerably less). Considering moving the Sicce pumps to the back wall but still near the ends and angling them towards one another vectored toward the front center. Then placing two icecap gyre pumps on the ends to boost overall flow without blasting anything.
