🚨 Do not make this mistake‼️ Understand flow in a saltwater aquarium!

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Tanknicians

Tanknicians

Жыл бұрын

Flow is the most important parameter to dial in for your reef tank. Yet it’s also the most overlooked. Many reef aquarium hobbyists will add a few powerheads because they were told they needed them and never think about it again. You should be spending a significant amount of time dialing your flow to grow corals faster and have better coloration in your corals.
In this video we show you exactly how to dial in your powerheads in your reef aquarium to grow your corals faster, get better color in your corals, grow less algae in your aquarium, and improve your beneficial bacteria in your aquarium as well as remove detritus from your rock and sand.

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@dalecruz715
@dalecruz715 Ай бұрын
Your forearms sold me on flow
@user-nc7lw3lv8p
@user-nc7lw3lv8p 11 ай бұрын
I have been running a tank with limited success for about a year now. I Knew that flow was important but had never been given any way of knowing if something was high, medium or low flow, everyone just said it was critical to do right. Your turnover numbers has given me a great place to start. Everything in my tank has fluffed up and my polyp extension has greatly improved. Thank you.
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 11 ай бұрын
I’m so happy to hear that- thanks for sharing!
@greenwoodexotics4386
@greenwoodexotics4386 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@MikeyColon
@MikeyColon Жыл бұрын
Great tips! Keep them coming.
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@TRIGGERHAPPYREBEL
@TRIGGERHAPPYREBEL 4 ай бұрын
Great video thank you for the help
@Anton-42
@Anton-42 11 ай бұрын
When u said nero I cheered 🍻 🎉
@ROTTERtube
@ROTTERtube 5 ай бұрын
Great video! I have a 6' long tank...125 gallons. I have the octoplus 4. It's only set to power level of one.....and still, I'm afraid it's too strong of a current for my torch. After seeing this video I'm sure it's fine, but I'm tempted to leave it turned off and just rely on the return power heads and only use the octoplus at night. not sure. thoughts anyone? thanks!
@justwho1
@justwho1 11 ай бұрын
great video 👍
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 11 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍
@kimvermeiren79
@kimvermeiren79 5 ай бұрын
Great tip!! I have an aquarium of 1m80 (6feet). I’m running a maxspect gyre XF350 on it. I don’t like the flow because my sand is moving but al lot of deadspots. I did order the octo pulse 2+… i was thinking 6 octo pulse 2+ instead of 2 octo pulse 4 and 2 octo pulse 2. Bit in your video you do the combination with Nero? Can u get te same result with 6 octo pulse 2+? I wanna start over with the flow from zero.
@ks1ngh27
@ks1ngh27 11 ай бұрын
Great content. I subscribed. I have well established tank but my coral growth is slow because of flow. Especially Zoas don’t seem to like the tank. Any advice?
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 11 ай бұрын
Feel free to send us a video of the tank in an Instagram dm for more detailed advice. But going off of what you suggested I’d recommend adding more flow, preferably a diffuse flow from something like a Nero.
@melodic_breezy
@melodic_breezy 11 ай бұрын
Sorry but I’m gonna have to disagree with the numbers. In my Reefer 200xl if I used a high flow of your recommendation of 80x that would mean I would have to use 16,000 LPH pumps which would strip the flesh clean off my corals and push every grain of sand away from the bottom of my tank. Also with regards to the return pump Red Sea recommend a 2000 LPH which I doubled to 4000 and is more than enough to efficiently turnover all the water in my system more than 10 times an hour
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 11 ай бұрын
Hi, thanks for commenting! I don’t think we disagree I think the sticking point here is how we are defining turnover. You’re describing turn over through the filtration (which with marine sumps is optimized usually between 4-10 x water volume per hour. Red seas follow this rule. What we are discussing in the video is turnover throughout the display tank. Your tank may be better served with a smaller return pump and a diffuse powerhead like a Nero 👍
@bp7505
@bp7505 7 ай бұрын
Do you slow down or change the type of flow at night?
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 7 ай бұрын
In a high flow system it can be a good idea to make the fish more comfortable, but in the oceans flow doesn’t decrease at night and increase in the morning.
@brianchang5099
@brianchang5099 Жыл бұрын
whenever i turn on my flow pump my goniporia in a 20 gallon cube closes up what can i do
@tanknicians8839
@tanknicians8839 Жыл бұрын
You could move the goni to a spot with less flow, move or direct the powerhead differently, or potentially you may want to uografe the powerhead to something more controllable. Feel free to send us a dm on Instagram with a video of the tank, preferably with some flake food floating around and I can give better advice.
@sovereignviper90
@sovereignviper90 11 ай бұрын
Goni's like turbulent flow, sounds like you run a more laminar flow, aka straight line flow. In my 65g I run two jebao slw 20's max flow set on else mode and one mp10 set to max flow on nutrient export setting. I have recovered hundreds of dying goni frags with this type of flow. Corals are like a nagging wife, just take your time to process the nag and adjust from there lol
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