New to R2R

[Simon Cushing]

Hi All,
My Name is simon I live in Stratford upon Avon in the UK.
I am a Newbie to this Forum, I have a custom made 60g reef cube which is now 5yrs old, so you could say it's a well established cube. I mainly keep softies due to the fact that I have fairly high Nitrates 25ppm but I am due to do a breakdown early next year, i.e. Change the sand and rocks etc.
One question I would like to ask is that I recently changed my old Jebao DC 600 for the new model Jebao DCP 65000 after 5yrs without any issues. I need to ask how to set the flow rate on the control panel.
On my old return pump the setting was 70% on the control panel, on my new one I have it set on 50% but I need to know if it's too high as I have a 3 chamber 10g sump, with no reactors or fuge I just have a Tunze Doc Skimmer 9006. Do I need to Match the flow rate to my skimmer pump ? I have the drain on a trickle from the weir into the sump. Many thanks for any advice , plus I hope this makes sense too.

 

[Chrisfish]

Welcome to R2R, you’ve come to an awesome place :)

 

[Simon Cushing]

Welcome to R2R, you’ve come to an awesome place :)

Thanks Chris, I'm just finding my way around at the mo!;)

 

[Retro Reefer]

Welcome to R2R :D.. lots of great information and lots of great people here to help.

Your flow rate is mostly personal preference and you don’t need to match it to your skimmer.. the only thing to avoid is moving more water than your overflow can handle.

 

[Simon Cushing]

Welcome to R2R :D.. lots of great information and lots of great people here to help.

Your flow rate is mostly personal preference and you don’t need to match it to your skimmer.. the only thing to avoid is moving more water than your overflow can handle.

Thanks for the welcome :) so..I will leave the setting at 50% the water movement through the overflow is fine, i have room to manoeuvre on this if I wish to increase the flow. Thanks so much for the advice ;)

 

[Retro Reefer]

Thanks for the welcome :) so..I will leave the setting at 50% the water movement through the overflow is fine, i have room to manoeuvre on this if I wish to increase the flow. Thanks so much for the advice ;)

Your welcome :)

 

[Simon Cushing]

May I add..having a look around on this fantastic site I look forward to getting to know so many of you plus to converse on such a wonderful forum :) Awesome as you say;)

 

[kschweer]

Welcome to R2R!!

 

[Simon Cushing]

Welcome to R2R!!

Thank you so much:) cracking site to be on ;) finding out so much at the mo;)

 

[Simon Cushing]

My 60g cube

 

[reef lover]

Welcome to r2r!!

 

[Jason mack]

Welcome to R2R, we love seeing pictures and you can always start a build thread in members tanks for people too follow ,Happy Reefing!!

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Welcome to R2R

#welcometor2r

 

[Simon Cushing]

Thank you so much Jason ;) As I recently stated earlier that I'm finding my way around this wonderful forum:) plus what a cracking site this is ;) plus beginning to meet such great people who are just a Handshake across the pond as we Brits say:)

 

[Jason mack]

Here’s a link for it
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks.52/

 

[Jason mack]

Thank you so much Jason ;) As I recently stated earlier that I'm finding my way around this wonderful forum:) plus what a cracking site this is ;) plus beginning to meet such great people who are just a Handshake across the pond as we Brits say:)

Simon I’m closer than you think , I’m just across the channel in Holland :p... but I was born in good ol’ Blackpool !!!:D:D

 

[Jason mack]

My 60g cube

Beautiful tank Simon !!!!

 

[KJ]

Welcome to R2R Simon! Great looking tank;)

 

[dbl]

Welcome to R2R Simon and thanks for signing up.

 

[Nate77]

Welcome , good looking tank.