Thoughts on over skimming

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I just reviewed your tank thread, what kinda water flow do you have in the main tank? I noticed you had a seahorse which I had forgot about.. can they handle high flow or do you have to keep it fairly low for them?

guess what I am trying to figure out is how much water per hour is actualy getting to the sump?

oh and are you running the balling setup yet?

Steve

I have 1000 GPH through the sump, plus two Tunze 6101 power heads which I believe are currently on 30-80% sine waves during the day and 30% constant at night. The seahorse doesn't come out during the day very often, likely because of the higher flow but all flow is shut off during feeding so the seahorse doesn't have any issues eating and the flow cuts back in the evening so the seahorse gets a couple hours of light and low flow to swim around. He seems well adapted to the system.

No balling yet, just water changes and a little Kalk seems to do fine for now.