today i actually removed the right side hydor flo. the two combined were providing excellent flow. it was good and random, but with my mushrooms and zoas just starting off, i wanted the ease up on the flow a bit, so i put back in the locline kind of thing that came stock with the tank. ill be putting the hydor back in at some point, but right now im just running the one hydor and the other return.
with the two hydors running i noticed that they both turned at different speeds. it added even more to the randomness. the top of the live rock on the top of everything got a REALLY strong flow as the hydor flos turned around...but im new to reefing so im not sure what "too much flow" would be. by removing one Flo i was trying to make an area of the tank with a bit of a weaker current, as there was a pretty decent current throughout the tank. i recently got a wavemaster Pro off of ebay, so i might even plug the MJ900 powering the locline side of the return into the wavemaster...and see if i like the results any more. i wonder what plugging a powerhead driving a hydor flo into a wavemaster would do...??lol.jk.
i think that the hydor flo gets a lot more flow coming out of it than the locline stuff...that's for sure.
i took out the top piece of liverock today and scrubbed as much of the plants as i could off of it. that stuff was going crazy. once i got the veggies off the two tubeworms (the first two i found in the tank) emerged for the first time in over a week. surprisingly one of them has grown considerably in the last two weeks. i also found a hitchhiker crab. he's tiny...sandy brown...and hides in a hole in the rock...and watches me...lol
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