Surge device, closed loop or bigger powerheads????????

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Originally Posted by chwkreefer

Hey Steve, are you using those Seio PH's. What's your opinion of them?

yup, I am using them in addition to my Tunze I like them so far.

Mike, how did you change your name and keep your post count never realized it was you until I read your Sig hehe. anyways I was not trying to discount what you said as I have been snorkeling on a few reefs myself but I think you were talking about power head blast, was I wrong? take my tank I am up to a 90X turnover rate in the tank. no matter where you put your hand you feel a gentle current not a hard flow anywhere well unless you put you hand right in front of the tunze. So it is possible to have high flow with out the blast.

One reason I also like the higher flows is I find the corals actually grow faster and more robust. I have also noticed a correlation to bleaching and flow, I am finding that the higher flow I have through the tank the less chance there is of a coral bleaching when I add it to the tank. I believer flow is often overlooked or the wrong type of flow is added. be for when I had my maxi jets I had to place them in such a manor that they wouldn't be pointing at anything as they would rip the flesh off my corals. at that time I had a flow rate of about 10 to 15X. with the new set up it is the first time I have not had to worry about where I put corals as although I have increased the flow rate by leaps and bounds it has been dispersed through out the tank and the type of flow generator (power heads) are that which make a wide flow not a blast. this constant high flow in my opinion makes it easier for corals to get rid of nasties that they need to get rid of and also makes a higher concentration of bacteria/nutrients/ect that they need available to them by the fact that more new water/min is made available to the coral and the flow is such that it keeps particulate matter suspended for them.

Steve