How much water flow is too much?

[Shad]

I was wondering if I have too much water flow for my tank. I have a 92 bow front with a power head in each corner, and the one in the back coming from the sump. There is a hell of a lot of current in my tank. Is it too much?

 

[Deanos]

What livestock (fish, coral & inverts) reside in the tank and exactly which pumps are providing the flow?

 

[Shad]

On the right I have a rio 800, sump rio3100 , left not sure what kind but similar to rio 800. corals :Two clams, green slimer, toad stool, rock anenome, a couple other soft corals not sure of their names, elephant shrooms, green, purple shrooms, kole tang, yellow tang, pain in the ass 4 stripe damsel, 6 line wrasse, maroon clown, jawfish, emeral crabs, cleaner shrimps, scarlett hermits, some kind of brain coral.

 

[House of Laughter]

Sounds good to me - but this is a preference thing if you ask me.

I ran my 180 with 1100 gph return and a Vortech and a TUNZE 6000 set at 45% max flow and I had pretty good success. Most flow guru's would have my head for a mixed reef with so many SPS with that little flow.

HTH

House

 

[Shad]

Thanks, just didnt know how much was too much.

 

[masterswimmer]

Shad, observe the corals and fish. Do the corals all open and extend their polyps? Do you see anything that looks like tissue recession on the corals? I don't see any issue at all with your fish or inverts, it's just the corals you should keep an eye on. That's the best indicator of too much or too little flow. I think it should be fine though.

R

 

[Shad]

Russ, I had bought sometype of brain coral 2 weeks ago. I wasn't sure about where to place it. I had it on top of the rock, I now moved it to the sand bed, what do ya think?
The rest of the corals are doing fine as far as no recession. Shad

 

[bad coffee]

if it's an open brain then they naturally live on the sand. If it's a maze brain (closed brain/pineaple) they can live on the rocks.

Make sure you feed it some meaty foods once in a while.

B

 

[masterswimmer]

Agreed on the brain placement. I keep all my brains in the dirt

swimmer