I had a surprise waiting for me on my front porch when I got home today. The EcoTech MP10 which I ordered April 10th finally arrive. I am not sure I have it position where will make all my corals happy but will keep tweaking until find best spot. I am currently using reef crest mode and already know creating a wave with short pulse will be near impossible with the rounded front tank design. I can get a mini wave which is cool.

Will need to call AquaCave as my back up was not shipped with it which I ordered at the same time.

Observations & Notes

UPDATE and REVIEW: After five days of running it, I believe I am one of the few who are disappointed with it for my tank. I do have to blame my tank configuration as it is bullet shaped so I can not get a wave, it is packed full of corals so I can not find a spot which is not blasting one and have to turn it down, and it is a 25 gallon bullet shaped nano so I do not have many placement options. I got better flow and control from my 6025 Tunze and may actually be pulling it out to put the Tunze back. It is quiet but so was my Tunze.

UPDATE (July 27, 2009): Let me say I stand corrected. After looking at pictures of other tank installations, I realized I may have had mine too far down in my tank as I was about six inches down in my tank. Once I moved it up to about two inches below surface, I was able to create a wave which oscillated about one inch and close to topping over the back sump area. In the new position, I am able to get great flow and I can say I am now excited about its performance.

I have only had one unexplained instance were the two sides separated and can not rule out my four year old daughter as no reason it would have had them separate. It may have been the wet side impeller seizing as I had to get it to move as it kept spinning off when the dry side was powered back on. The wet side just missed my torch and hope I do not have another separation as I had to move my frag stand back under the MP10 as my Euphyllia receive too much light from my T5s. I know better and will move the MP10 to the other side to see how it runs on that side. Always plan for the unexpected.

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