So I'm gonna be picking up a Marine X 60.2 from my LFS at a bargain price. I've got the lighting fixture from it. A T5 hybrid setup with a G6 Blue (check out the marketplace guys, there are some steals on there), and since lighting is pretty much down pat... What about flow? This tank is effectively gonna be acro heavy with maybe some montipora/birdsnests. But really I want to focus on the flow needs of the acros. The thing is... I want to have this tank to be the most crisp and clean tank I've EVER had. Which means, if possible, I want to avoid equipment inside the display. My problem is that I've never really done that before. Sure my biocube doesn't have any wavemakers. But it's basically just a FOWLR with GSP covering some rocks. That's not really a tank that is demanding constant water movement.
So I do have some basic idea of what I should do. I'm thinking of getting a Sicce Syncra Pro with a 1500GPH rating. I would imagine that would work. Combine that with a random flow nozzle from VCA and I should be set... Right? Well that's the thing. I have no clue. Does anybody else have a solid idea of what I may need? Do I need a bigger pump? Have you done this before and found what does and does not work? Honestly my main plan was to just put two gyres on the back wall and go nuts with the flow. But if I could get this to work with only the return pump for flow. Then holy crap, this opens up the possibility that I could have a sea hare in the tank. I mean, come on! How cool would that be?
Anyway, please feel free to give any advice that you feel may help. Thank you!
So I do have some basic idea of what I should do. I'm thinking of getting a Sicce Syncra Pro with a 1500GPH rating. I would imagine that would work. Combine that with a random flow nozzle from VCA and I should be set... Right? Well that's the thing. I have no clue. Does anybody else have a solid idea of what I may need? Do I need a bigger pump? Have you done this before and found what does and does not work? Honestly my main plan was to just put two gyres on the back wall and go nuts with the flow. But if I could get this to work with only the return pump for flow. Then holy crap, this opens up the possibility that I could have a sea hare in the tank. I mean, come on! How cool would that be?
Anyway, please feel free to give any advice that you feel may help. Thank you!