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If you do too good a job in overall filtration, they will have nothing to eat. A good point. A strong stream though will also stir the water around it into moving in the same direction, so the flow is not entirely of filtered water. As long as the tank's overall filtration is not too high, it ...

1000 GPH will be plenty , even with Atyopsis in the future. That's what I thought. pixl8r and badflash didn't seem to understand that 10x flow is perfectly good for soft coral reef aquariums, where most of the organisms are filter feeders. I wasn't going to believe them without them presenting real ...

My numbers were off. The pump is 1017 GPH, 13x flow. The sponges are 4x7", 4 of them, for 112 square inches, for around 10 GPH per square inch. Much more reasonable. I'll need to put together a spray bar though, as this thing produces a torrent in the tank without one.

badflash wrote:Flow does not remain contant through a filter. ...go oversize so weekly cleanings are all you need.

I am going oversized. Most community aquariums are only run around 5x. Are you saying 10x is not enough?

I learned at a SW seminar (on water flow), that it's not necessarily the total gph, but the efficiency of the water flow. Yeah, but it's still a useful rule of thumb. Most of us are not going to do dye tests to see what the relative currents are in diffrent parts of the tank. We depend on a total ...

my lack of funding is keeping me from setting it up. Precisesly why I spent a year planning a saltwater tank, then decided NOT to invest in any hardware. Everybody has a budget line.

30 gallon long... the RCS weren't too picky about water flow... The water flow and current in my tank are for my A ...

I'm planning to convert my 75 gallon to a shrimp tank. I'll probably go with Red Cherry Neocaridina, but I could be talked into another freshwater breeder. Leftover from my last setup, I have a ton of driftwood and some slow-growing plants.

I'm right now working on building a large sponge filter ...