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September 6th, 2008, 04:43 AM
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Water flow
I am now certain from personal experience that high water flow is one of the best ways to keep algae growth down.
I was doing consistent twice per week water changes for about two months and the algae stayed low. But when i failed to do so and only changed once per month, algae grew like crazy. But, after i increased my water level all algae seems to be doing off and i havent done a single water change in 5 weeks. I'm going to increase it a little bit more. But i was wondering one thing...i notice that my fish dont really swim too close to the powerheads because of the strong push, will this affect my yellow tang because he is getting less room to swim? He is avoiding going close to the power heads. Or is this something he will adjust to? Poweheads have been running only 3 days. Current Aquarium(s) Description: 80 Gal. Experience in Saltwater & Reef Aquarium Hobby: 2 years Other Intrests: Drums, sports, camping, astronomy and computers. 
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September 6th, 2008, 04:53 AM
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Re: Water flow
i would assume so because tangs love lots of flow and all of mine swim right up to the front of my korilia 4 and my power heads and just swim in it for a long time
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"If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"- George Carlin Current Aquarium(s) Description: 120 gallon with built in dual overflows Experience in Saltwater & Reef Aquarium Hobby: >1 year Other Intrests: football, paintball, workin out, saltwater fish
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September 6th, 2008, 03:15 PM
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Re: Water flow
What kind of powerheads are you running?I noticed when I was running M-Js that my fish tryed to avoid the flow.But with the koralias they seem to like swimming in it.
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September 6th, 2008, 03:38 PM
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Re: Water flow
Cant agree more. Only problem is some corals just are not going to do well with a lot of flow. This is why I consider lagoonal schemed tanks to be one of the more problematic.
Over the years I have found high flow sps bare bottom tanks with a remote dsb to be some of the easiest to maintain provided fish load is kept low. Current Aquarium(s) Description: 120 reef Experience in Saltwater & Reef Aquarium Hobby: 20 years off and on
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