Would this be a overkill in flow?

[duke62]

I have a 180 sps tank with a few Lps and some zoas with a mp40 and the gyre 150, one on the left panel one on the right both are at 100% along with 2 3/4 sea swirls because I have no sand no worries on sand storms. I have a spare mp40 sitting in my fish tank room and was thinking of putting it on the rear panel. Think this will be a overkill?

 

[tofucube]

You can crank it to the lowest setting and keep it on reef crest or lagoon mode. Or you can lower the other pumps and up the power on the extra mp40 if the other pumps are noisy. Just a thought

 

[rovster]

Not at all. I have more "hardware" on my 100 gallon.......

 

[rayn]

I have three mp 40 on my 120 and they do a good job of keeping the bottom clean, bare bottom like yours. I would think another pump would only help if on the right setting.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I dunno, but I DEFINITELY want to see a picture (or better yet a video) of all those pumps in action!

 

[hybridazn]

It's hard to say, every tank reacts differently to things like this. The best way to fins out is to just add the extra pump and gradually increase the flow until you start seeing ill effects