Too Much For a 100g

[stubbsz]

I've a 100g reef tank and currently, apart from the return pump, I have one Tunze 6060 and a small powerhead at the other end of the tank that has a rotating thingiemigig to just change up the flow. It's no where near enough and I ordered a 6060 Tunze for the replace the tiny powerhead. However, the 6060 seems to be out of stock in... er.. in the USA it seems. After being messed around a little by a online mechant who I assured me they had the pump then told me 2 days later that he didn't, I ordered a 6080 from good old Marine Depot.

I noticed that Tunze.com say they are rated for 104g to 400g. Wow, It's a lot more powerful than my 6060 and I'm a little worried that I'm gonna have some issues with this.

Comments please.

-Adrian
p.s. reasons for wanting more flow... I was forced to move a Pocillopora to a lower flow area. It was softball sized and now it's dying back in certain areas and its hard to locate it for more flow. Also, I'm fighting a brown slime with bubbles type algae outbreak right now which is annoying the softies in my tank.

 

[WRASSER]

Your lights might be on a little to long, and maybe the cause of the algea out break. On the flow, you can install a valva to regulte flow at any desire

 

[stubbsz]

Thank,

Valva, I didn't have much luck searching on that...

Photo period is a little under 8 hours (2 * 250 DE halides)

Lighting has been in a couple of months and the outbreak is this week only. I was thinking of doing a day with no lights as I've seen that mentioned a lot for this kind of algae breakout.

 

[WRASSER]

On the valve, All you have to do is install it in line with the pump. it can be as easy as pump, tube, valve, tube and in the tank. then you regulate the flow with the valve, of course :wink:
With the algea, I dont think you have to turn the lights off for a day. Check the water para and see what the tank is telling you and go from there. It might be something simple as a water change and plucking some bubbles. ( carefully ) or plucking then water change :wink:

 

[stubbsz]

The Tunze Pumps are the Propeller type circulation pumps... not in-line so a valve wont help here.

My Algae description was bad... these aren't the bubbles as in bubble-algae (valonia?), they are bubbles of gas that the algae is producing. I have siphoned off the algae and bubbles but they come right back.

 

[WRASSER]

Ahhh, Gotchya, I dont know if the Tunze pump came with additions in the box, sometimes pumps come with an add on that have a valve on it to slow down flow.

 

[Rob Top]

You can always get a contoller for the Tunze. I believe the contoller allows to regulate the flow.

 

[stubbsz]

Alas, quoting MD

"This pump is designed to run continuously and cannot be used with a controller or wavemaker."

 

[Rob Top]

Oh, no controll on the 6080. Return it and get the one you can controll.

 

[stubbsz]

Interesting, hoping for someone who has one to make a comment, to ascertain whether it actually will be too much for the tank. I guess the specs suggest it but...

Interesting how much more expensive they are if they are controllable and then you have to buy the controller. Having a hard time justifying it to myself let alone my wife.

 

[LA-Lawman]

you can use a tunze controller. all of their pumps are designed to use thier multi or single controllers... the website says it can only be run with a tunze unit though.

 

[stubbsz]

you can use a tunze controller. all of their pumps are designed to use thier multi or single controllers... the website says it can only be run with a tunze unit though.

Thanks for the info. Can you link me to the the text that says this? I can't find it; what I find is this on their site:

The speed of the Turbelle® stream 6000, 6100 and 6200 can be controlled by a Singlecontroller or a Multicontroller. {No mention of 6060 or 6080 here}

People who sell the pumps state that the 6060 and the 6080 cannot be controlled this way.


EDIT: (From Tunze USA)
The 6080 cannot be controlled. The controllable pumps are
electronic, they have a computer system that controls the speed. The
6080 and 6060 are termed synchronous pumps they run in sync with the
60Hz pattern of the mains voltage so they do 60 rotations a second,
this cannot be controlled. You could buy the 6060.12 prop and
convert the 6080 to a 6060. It would have a beefier coil and and use
a couple more watts than a 6060 but it would be the same flow.

Roger

Thanks
-Adrian

 

[stubbsz]

Update.

Not to much flow I don't feel. Corals look happy and the porcillia that was suffering looks way happier now...one of the reasons I upped the ante with flow.

The sand in my tank is drifting more than it used too but I think I can deal with that

The sure-grip magnet I got for it is awesome... I couldn't risk that think pulling its sucker off and taking a dive into the sand bed !

Thanks

-Adrian

 

[LA-Lawman]

i got eh same blurb from tunze. i read the model number wrong. he told me that all of their pumps will soon by controllable. hesaid the 6060 was designed to run constant due to the need of some aquarists....

sorry for the bad info.