Paratore Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Sorry for yet another question but I just can't resist because I know there are so many knowledgable people on here! How much flow is too much flow for a zoa/paly, a hammer, and mostly SPS reef tank? I am running a standard 55 gallon tank and right now my flow comes from my return pump (1000 GPH I believe) and a Jabeo RW-8. I have the RW-8 set on else mode which is a randomized setting of increasing and decreasing flow. The RW-8 is on the right wall of my tank and blows across the entire tank. I feel like there is a ton of flow in the tank at times and that it might almost be to much flow but I am not sure. Just looking for some different peoples input on how much flow I should have. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badxgillen Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 This is a question that has no easy answer, if you run more flow up top where many of your SPS will be and less flow lower where much of the LPS will be you can get a happy medium. Direct flow is generally unhospitable to most corals particularly fleshy LPS so keep that in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paratore Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 I plan to make the tank mostly SPS/zoas so if I remove my LPS would I be golden flow wise? I'm slowly transitioning to SPS and want to try and make the least amount of errors I can haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Even in high flow tanks...there should be areas for less flow creatures. Think behind rocks, or just study the tank and find some low flow spots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paratore Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Thank you everyone for your input! I'll have to keep watching the tank and see how it does. Might have to move some rocks around to create low flow areas for my LPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) LPS can handle more flow than you would think. Check out the video on this thread for an example. http://www.pnwmas.org/index.php?/topic/34259-Clowns-Hosting-Toxic-Hammer-Slow-Mo/page__view__findpost__p__343039 Edited May 1, 2015 by theclark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 If your hammer is open, it is fine IME. I run pretty high flow systems as well and keep many LPS and SPS It's just a phone pic but you can see that large LPS colony right infront of the RW8. Only problem I have with it is it keeps growing. I also have some hammers and frogspawns in there built into that little valley. That tank runs two wp40's and an Rw8 plus the return at it's peak flow time. HTH One of these days I'll take a real pic of my tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yourmedic Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 LPS can handle more flow than you would think. Check out the video on this thread for an example. http://www.pnwmas.org/index.php?/topic/34259-Clowns-Hosting-Toxic-Hammer-Slow-Mo/page__view__findpost__p__343039 Just going through so threads to get an idea of flow and what not. That's some FLOW!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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