Balancing flow for an LPS system. 90g DT

Radioheadx14 · 10/21/2008, 08:01 PM

I was wondering what people's powerhead set up was for LPS dominated systems? I have a nice colony of hammers and a frogspawn frag as well as some candy canes. (some xenia, anthelia zoa/palys and ricordia too) I wanted to add some more euphyllia corals and some other LPS like duncans and maybe some acans. What are people using for mid sized tanks? 75g-120g. I have 2 koralia 3s and one koralia 2 and it took me forever to get it set up so the euphyllias would open fully. They dont seems to like strong flow.

I have a 2 on one side pointing behind the rocks and a 3 on the other side pointing behind the rocks and the second3 pointing towards the upper middle. plus my return flow.

Is there a trick to getting a balance of flow? i dont want crap to settle everywhere but i want more room to put euphyllia like more frogspawn frags and torch corals. plus not creating a sand storm would be nice.

kpendarvis · 10/21/2008, 08:16 PM

If you can get water streams from the koralias to cross each other you can get a lot of slower random movements. It can take some time to perfect though.

ihavtats29 · 10/21/2008, 08:52 PM

i face mine near the top facing the front of the glass and a couple facing eachother on opposite sides and have almost no dead spots

10/21/2008, 08:01 PM	#1
Radioheadx14 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, OH Posts: 1,601	Balancing flow for an LPS system. 90g DT I was wondering what people's powerhead set up was for LPS dominated systems? I have a nice colony of hammers and a frogspawn frag as well as some candy canes. (some xenia, anthelia zoa/palys and ricordia too) I wanted to add some more euphyllia corals and some other LPS like duncans and maybe some acans. What are people using for mid sized tanks? 75g-120g. I have 2 koralia 3s and one koralia 2 and it took me forever to get it set up so the euphyllias would open fully. They dont seems to like strong flow. I have a 2 on one side pointing behind the rocks and a 3 on the other side pointing behind the rocks and the second3 pointing towards the upper middle. plus my return flow. Is there a trick to getting a balance of flow? i dont want crap to settle everywhere but i want more room to put euphyllia like more frogspawn frags and torch corals. plus not creating a sand storm would be nice.

10/21/2008, 08:52 PM	#3
ihavtats29 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cordova , TN Posts: 2,882	i face mine near the top facing the front of the glass and a couple facing eachother on opposite sides and have almost no dead spots __________________ got reef? Current Tank Info: 29 biocube HQI

10/21/2008, 08:16 PM	#2
kpendarvis Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Starkville, Mississippi Posts: 188	If you can get water streams from the koralias to cross each other you can get a lot of slower random movements. It can take some time to perfect though.