Tunze recirculating pumps for a sump

[Itsadeepbluesea]

What do you guys think of Tunze recirculating pumps for a sump?

 

[Reefscape]

What make and model? what size tank and sump?

 

[mr.reef24]

same question here ^

mr.reef24

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Its a Tunze 1073.20 recirculation pump. It does about 634gph but with the 4 feet 1" of head that I have it I figure it will do a little under 300gph. Slightly more then I wanted but pretty close. Its for a 55 gallon, the sump size I'm not 100% sure but it is pretty much standard for a 55.

 

[KYeasting]

If you can find a pump characteristic curve, you'll know exactly what your flow rate will be.

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

i did find it but is was in metric so i did a rough conversion

 

[mr.reef24]

what was the flow for your setup?

mr.reef24

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I figured to have about 250ish gph flowing to the sump, approximately 5x tank volume, then 2 250 powerheads in the tank for a grand total of about 15x volume.

 

[mr.reef24]

that's perfect ^

mr.reef24