Gyre vs Vortech Mp
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I have a 30" long tank and the suggestion was to get the gyre 130 it will be enough. Well should have gotten a 150 for my 50 gal because I am running the 130 at 90% and the noise is annoying. If would have gotten the 150 I would have been able to run it at 40-50% and diff would have been quieter. I don't let sand blowing be the deciding factor that I have too much flow. My corals health decides that.
Vortechs are a great product and so are the gyre pumps. They both have great features. I was running 2 mp60 on my 300 gallon but was never truly happy with the flow. Don't get my wrong, 60s create a crazy amount of flow. The problem I was having was they were so close to my sps they were beating the s*** out of the corals causing them to loose color and when I would turn them down I would loose function of the controllability. But before I was asked to be a beta tester for the gyre pump I told Lindsey (@ReefBullet) that there was no way the gyre would work as great at as a mp60 at pushing water. She swore she would change my mind. And boy did she. Here's a video of 1 xf150 going heads up against 2 mp60s
http://youtu.be/i6HFxTio0Ao
The mp60s are turned to full power and so is the gyre. But even then when I was beta testing I didn't thing the gyre was all that great. I was ok and created good flow but it had a crappy controller. All it could do was pulse and constant. I told everyone that it wasn't an all in one pump where u could only have one of them and be done. I still believe this to this day. If u think that one gyre pump and no other pump in a tank is your answer to all your flow needs then your a fool. The pump is only good at doing one thing and that's make a gyre. I thing they're a great addition along the sides of vortechs or tunzes or even multiple gyre pumps. When the retail version was released they had a way better controller then the betas did. The new controller would allow the pump to spin in forward and reverse. There is no other aquarium pump out there that does this and make the gyre unique. This forward and reverse movement allows the pump to push water in both directions like so
http://youtu.be/nB03EG4erpo
This is alternating gyre mode.
So here's how I have my 300 peninsula setup. I took the 2 mp60's off completely and replaced them with 2 maxspect gyres. There both running on alternating gyre mode. One is attached to the overflow box vertical running a 80% the other is attached to the center brace and running a 40%.
http://youtu.be/E-0OMEtRuA4
The only flaw in the gyre pumps is still I the control or lack of control. Ecotech is light years ahead of maxspect on developing there controllers to do multiple functions.
http://youtu.be/i6HFxTio0Ao
The mp60s are turned to full power and so is the gyre. But even then when I was beta testing I didn't thing the gyre was all that great. I was ok and created good flow but it had a crappy controller. All it could do was pulse and constant. I told everyone that it wasn't an all in one pump where u could only have one of them and be done. I still believe this to this day. If u think that one gyre pump and no other pump in a tank is your answer to all your flow needs then your a fool. The pump is only good at doing one thing and that's make a gyre. I thing they're a great addition along the sides of vortechs or tunzes or even multiple gyre pumps. When the retail version was released they had a way better controller then the betas did. The new controller would allow the pump to spin in forward and reverse. There is no other aquarium pump out there that does this and make the gyre unique. This forward and reverse movement allows the pump to push water in both directions like so
http://youtu.be/nB03EG4erpo
This is alternating gyre mode.
So here's how I have my 300 peninsula setup. I took the 2 mp60's off completely and replaced them with 2 maxspect gyres. There both running on alternating gyre mode. One is attached to the overflow box vertical running a 80% the other is attached to the center brace and running a 40%.
http://youtu.be/E-0OMEtRuA4
The only flaw in the gyre pumps is still I the control or lack of control. Ecotech is light years ahead of maxspect on developing there controllers to do multiple functions.
Try changing the bearing out. When I got my first retail gyre it was really and I mean really noisy. It was so bad that the wife demanded I get rid of it. Well I messing with it and thought eff it I'm going to try swapping out the ceramic bearings. What would u know that did the trick for my noisy gyre.
There was no where I could put the 60's where they wouldn't be blasting sps. Also they were great for about 6' of flow, but I've got an 8' peninsula tank and anything with in 2' of them where just hammered to death at anything over 60%. If I wanted to keep with vortechs I would have to had to go with 4 mp60's. Basically 1 on each corner of the tank. But I got the flow I love out of 2 gyre for the price of one mp60 and my sps look 100 time better. Why would I buy 4 vortechs at $1800 when I got 2 gyre for a forth of that.
In that first video I posted the mp's are on full power. Look how far the flow goes before the gyre comes on. Then compare the flow of the whole tank when the gyre does come on.
Here's another video of one mp60 going heads up against the 150 gyre both are at 100% power
https://youtu.be/X4om4YGjzC8
You tell me with pump covers more real estate in the tank
The orange line is where the flow of the two pumps meet.
In that first video I posted the mp's are on full power. Look how far the flow goes before the gyre comes on. Then compare the flow of the whole tank when the gyre does come on.
Here's another video of one mp60 going heads up against the 150 gyre both are at 100% power
https://youtu.be/X4om4YGjzC8
You tell me with pump covers more real estate in the tank
The orange line is where the flow of the two pumps meet.
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