Water flow - poweheads advise

[aaron7405]

Hi there
I have a 55g tank and I want to add some water movement , beacasuse I want to add some sps this year. I have 2 jetstream 900 poiting eachother controled with a wavemaster pro from redsea.

I want to know what do you think about Hydro Koralias, Ministream Tunze and Seio superflow. I want to buy 2.

take in consideration than I will plug them to the wavemaker.

I want to know if they dont make any noise when they start.

Thanks a lot.

[kdblove_99]

I like Koralias alot but would not put them on a wavemaker.

If on a wavemaker and wanna keep price down the Seios are good


Overall you cant beat the Tunze unless you got a Vortech

[TK3]

Do you have budget? I'm using 2 Vortech's in my 56G and they're amazing. One was fine, but I wanted a second after the wireless drvers came out to run in sync/anti-sync mode and really get some wave making action.

[aaron7405]

nop my butget is not in the vortech I want to spend 200-250 in both

[sjm817]

You can mod the MJ900s you have.
http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...y_Code=Maxijet

[aaron7405]

Originally posted by sjm817
You can mod the MJ900s you have.
http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merch...y_Code=Maxijet

Its a great option. This way I wont have to invest again in the MJ´s and wavemaker controler. beside I like the Mj´s

Thank you

[kdblove_99]

You dont want to put the MJmods on a wavemaker either.


If you want to go wavemaker route i would definetly get the Seios

[aaron7405]

I allready have the mjs on the wevemaker and they run OK quite., will be any diference if I do the mod?

[WarrenG]

I've tried two different brands of MJ mods that are for sale at Marine Depot and elsewhere. The first one failed after a week or two but the "Algae Free" has been running just fine for about a month now. I'm going to order another one.

In a 55g tank two of the Algae Free on a MJ600 or 900 would be plenty.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_ViewIt...ct~AF1551.html

[aaron7405]

thank you

[kdblove_99]

MJ's on a wavemaker are great, No issues. But i wouldnt put MJmods on a wavemaker. They will get destroyed pretty quick and they can get noisy when starting up.


if you have a wavemaker that doesnt turn the PH's all the way off and back on that should be fine

[aaron7405]

unfurtanally my wavemaker it turn them all the way off. its a redsea wavemaker pro.

[WarrenG]

I've used the Algae Free mod on a Redsea wavemaker. It's no problem. It doesn't seem to start backwards very often and it rights itself immediately.

What I've done for the last few weeks in my 150g tank is use a MJ600 with the mod on a timer that can go on/off each 15 minutes (it has those little gray tabs), and then leaving a pair of MJ1200's on the wavemaker without the mod. This provides very good water movement in my tank. If I didn't already have the Wavemeaker I'd just get more timers and use them with the MJ and Algae Free mod.

On a real reef, most of the corals we keep see currents flowing in one direction for hours at a time, more than they see turbulence back and forth, aka "surge". On the reef the corals also see eddies and things like that but we can also do that with current streamers like the Algae Free mod on a MJ.

[aaron7405]

WarrenG, aren´t the mj mod too noise at the start?

[five.five-six]

Originally posted by kdblove_99
IIf on a wavemaker and wanna keep price down the Seios are good

anyone else used the Seios sucsessfully?

[WarrenG]

Originally posted by aaron7405
WarrenG, aren´t the mj mod too noise at the start?

The Algae Free one that I have makes either no sound or one click if it starts backwards and needs to stop and go the other way. You don't really hear it from the front of the tank.