Can I use one pump to run everything?????

drrich · 10/19/2007, 12:55 PM

I definitely bought too much new pump for my system which is about 170g including the sump.

I bought a reeflow Hammerhead which will pump 5000+ gallons/hr.

Could I T off this pump and use it to power my Precision Marine Bullet 2 skimmer, and Chiller as well as my return?

I know I would need a lot of valves, but I have no problem with plumbing everything.

Thanks in advance

Rich

95accord · 10/19/2007, 01:00 PM

sure you could use it to power mostly everything. i dont see why not. gives you a good tunrover rate of roughly 29x per hour.

but then again...what do i know. im no expert by any means.

rustybucket145 · 10/19/2007, 01:05 PM

Plenty of water flow but I'm not familiar with your skimmer. Is it recirc? or Venturi?

drrich · 10/19/2007, 01:10 PM

It's definitely not a recirc. It could use a flow of up to 1100gph.

der_wille_zur_macht · 10/19/2007, 01:47 PM

PM Bullets are beckett, iirc. They need a fair amount of flow and pressure to work well.

You could definitely do this, but IMHO it's kind of a bad idea unless you keep a backup pump (or several.) Any time that hammerhead has any sort of problem, your whole entire system will be down.

How big is the display tank? What is your intent on stocking it? If you are going for an SPS tank, just use the hammerhead to power a closed loop and get smaller, cheaper pumps for everything else.

mbbuna · 10/19/2007, 02:02 PM

i run a 180, 75, 24 on the first floor and a 50 frag, PO4 and carbon reactor in the basement from a hammerhead. from the out put of the pump plumb everything in 2"pvc and then reduce it right before what ever your connection

drrich · 10/19/2007, 02:04 PM

I want to do a mixed lps and sps.

As for closed loop, it's an existing display tank of about 150G which is not drilled. I have one cpr overflow, but it can only handle 1500gph. I have a second cpr overflow which I could set up on the tank in addition.

I don't know how I would do a closed loop without the tank being drilled, as the pump is not self priming.

Anyway, isn't it too much flow, even if I split it 4 ways?

Chibils · 10/19/2007, 02:09 PM

34x turnover isn't too much for sps by any means. Some of the lps will need some indirect flow, but it'd be fine for the sps.

mbbuna · 10/19/2007, 02:52 PM

drrich, yes the out put on the hammerhead is 1 1/2" but by plumbing everything at 2" you will have less frictional loss/more power to run thing like power hungry beckett skimmers.

drrich · 10/19/2007, 02:54 PM

thank you.

10/19/2007, 12:55 PM	#1
drrich Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New York Posts: 202	Can I use one pump to run everything????? I definitely bought too much new pump for my system which is about 170g including the sump. I bought a reeflow Hammerhead which will pump 5000+ gallons/hr. Could I T off this pump and use it to power my Precision Marine Bullet 2 skimmer, and Chiller as well as my return? I know I would need a lot of valves, but I have no problem with plumbing everything. Thanks in advance Rich

10/19/2007, 01:00 PM	#2
95accord Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Fredericton Posts: 623	sure you could use it to power mostly everything. i dont see why not. gives you a good tunrover rate of roughly 29x per hour. but then again...what do i know. im no expert by any means. __________________ when life passes you by....downshift Current Tank Info: Reef 2.0 - 45 Osaka cube

10/19/2007, 01:05 PM	#3
rustybucket145 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: valdosta, ga Posts: 3,707	Plenty of water flow but I'm not familiar with your skimmer. Is it recirc? or Venturi? __________________ 400gals of various tanks in the same system. Current Tank Info: 2 175w MH, 2 VH0 Actinics, Lots of Live Rock, tons of copepods, a Fat Mandarin Goby, Niger Trigger, Yellow Tang, Falco Hawkfish, Bi-Color Pseudo, numerous soft, SPS and LPS Corals

10/19/2007, 01:47 PM	#5
der_wille_zur_macht Team RC Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NY Posts: 17,749	PM Bullets are beckett, iirc. They need a fair amount of flow and pressure to work well. You could definitely do this, but IMHO it's kind of a bad idea unless you keep a backup pump (or several.) Any time that hammerhead has any sort of problem, your whole entire system will be down. How big is the display tank? What is your intent on stocking it? If you are going for an SPS tank, just use the hammerhead to power a closed loop and get smaller, cheaper pumps for everything else. __________________ Inconveniencing marine life since 1992 "It is my personal belief that reef aquaria should be thriving communities of biodiversity, representative of their wild counterparts, and not merely collections of pretty specimens growing on tidy clean rock shelves covered in purple coralline algae." (Eric Borneman)

10/19/2007, 02:09 PM	#8
Chibils halide loyalist Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sugar Hill, GA Posts: 2,213	34x turnover isn't too much for sps by any means. Some of the lps will need some indirect flow, but it'd be fine for the sps. __________________ always learning Current Tank Info: 75G new world cichlid, 25G reef in planning

10/19/2007, 01:10 PM	#4
drrich Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New York Posts: 202	It's definitely not a recirc. It could use a flow of up to 1100gph.

10/19/2007, 02:02 PM	#6
mbbuna Moved On Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6,847	i run a 180, 75, 24 on the first floor and a 50 frag, PO4 and carbon reactor in the basement from a hammerhead. from the out put of the pump plumb everything in 2"pvc and then reduce it right before what ever your connection

10/19/2007, 02:04 PM	#7
drrich Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New York Posts: 202	I want to do a mixed lps and sps. As for closed loop, it's an existing display tank of about 150G which is not drilled. I have one cpr overflow, but it can only handle 1500gph. I have a second cpr overflow which I could set up on the tank in addition. I don't know how I would do a closed loop without the tank being drilled, as the pump is not self priming. Anyway, isn't it too much flow, even if I split it 4 ways?

10/19/2007, 02:52 PM	#9
mbbuna Moved On Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6,847	drrich, yes the out put on the hammerhead is 1 1/2" but by plumbing everything at 2" you will have less frictional loss/more power to run thing like power hungry beckett skimmers.

10/19/2007, 02:54 PM	#10
drrich Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New York Posts: 202	thank you.