Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[living_tribunal]

Is that second pic a Platygyra?

Symphyllia wilsoni.

 

[living_tribunal]

This guys whole body is moving with the flow, I’m still dying smh. He’s like a bag of charcoal! I mean I got to give it to the favias...

This is like a coral double chin

(Last pic of this but I’m crying here)

 

[living_tribunal]

I could use some flow tips from y’all. Something just changed in both tanks. The flow is too intense.

It’s like it ricochets off each other and hits everything too violently. Been spending hours trying to get it right.

 

[living_tribunal]

I didn't think they could get any bigger... kept swelling up as the day went on.

Did you feed him?

 

[Why-Me]

I could use some flow tips from y’all. Something just changed in both tanks. The flow is too intense.

It’s like it ricochets off each other and hits everything too violently. Been spending hours trying to get it right.

Can you try using just one?
Or maybe one on one side wall and one on the opposite side and back glass facing forward?

 

[living_tribunal]

Can you try using just one?
Or maybe one on one side wall and one on the opposite side and back glass facing forward?

When I use just one for the 10g, the flow is not enough. I just tried lowering the pump on the left side which surprisingly decreased the intensity on my higher flow demand corals.

I still don’t know what to do with the display. I can’t master slave it on else mode because it’s way too intense, nearly knocked the polyps off my monti. It’s like it goes full speed now which is 2,250gph. I’m not sure changing the speed helps when they are set to else mode (random flow).

Right now, I have the back pump on the second lowest speed making waves and the front on else mode. It looks alright but not getting those hurling wave motions that have the nice smooth flow and wave motion.

 

[Why-Me]

When I use just one for the 10g, the flow is not enough. I just tried lowering the pump on the left side which surprisingly decreased the intensity on my higher flow demand corals.

I still don’t know what to do with the display. I can’t master slave it on else mode because it’s way too intense, nearly knocked the polyps off my monti. It’s like it goes full speed now which is 2,250gph. I’m not sure changing the speed helps when they are set to else mode (random flow).

Right now, I have the back pump on the second lowest speed making waves and the front on else mode. It looks alright but not getting those hurling wave motions that have the nice smooth flow and wave motion.

I would move them higher up the glass to make the waves further up the water column where there aren't as many corals and the deflected slowing action will make it down to most of the corals, much more gently.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

is this any better

Yep, that confirmed it. Female ornate leopard wrasse. Macropharyngodon ornatus.

 

[living_tribunal]

Yep, that confirmed it. Female ornate leopard wrasse. Macropharyngodon ornatus.

Envious of the fish in your other pics. It’s beautiful.

 

[Why-Me]

Speaking of how's that betta doing? @Robin Haselden

 

[living_tribunal]

I would move them higher up the glass to make the waves further up the water column where there aren't as many corals and the deflected slowing action will make it down to most of the corals, much more gently.

They are pretty high up. Here’s the current set up. I have to point the pump pretty high up or he murders that monti. He also generates too much flow on the bottom and hits the fat favia.

The back pump on slave mode and else goes wayyy to hard and generates too much flow coming around to the other side and smashes those cloves.

I don’t know what happened!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Did you feed him?

They haven't been fed by me in 6+ months. I don't feed my LPS unless they are struggling.

The rainbow came to me injured as it was stung by a scoly. Wrasse hole of a red coris wrasse(Coris gaimard, beautiful fish, flips everything over looking for food) flipped a master scoly over on top of it. I think the scoly ended up dying, never was brought to me for rehab. Anyway, I nursed the rainbow trachy back to health by feeding what I call Reef Roids ice cream. It's just Reef Roids and water, but mixed thick like soft serve ice cream. Just thin enough to suck up in a 1ml syringe and squirt right in the mouth. Trick is to get some really thin, lots of water and a little roids and spray right on top. Onve the coral sends out feeders then you load it up with the ice cream. All of this has to be done with all flow off.

Once they look healthy, I do not target feed.

 

[Magellan]

They are pretty high up. Here’s the current set up. I have to point the pump pretty high up or he murders that monti. He also generates too much flow on the bottom and hits the fat favia.

The back pump on slave mode and else goes wayyy to hard and generates too much flow coming around to the other side and smashes those cloves.

I don’t know what happened!

You’ve got to break it up somehow.

my centerpiece does that for me, you can see there are rock pieces right in front of the returns that I have the flow aimed at and I still use the mag float to redirect even more of it. And I’m at 18x turnover.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Speaking of how's that betta doing? @Robin Haselden

Sleeping right now, but got a lot of color back today. Red is still pale on his head but his tail is super shiny metallic copper colored. Seems to tolerate the apistos for now. They need to be rehomed soon tho, that male will get to be 3.5" long. He ate 2 whole blood worms at dinner time, hadn't eaten since 11/23.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

I could use some flow tips from y’all. Something just changed in both tanks. The flow is too intense.

It’s like it ricochets off each other and hits everything too violently. Been spending hours trying to get it right.

I'm a horrible forum friend, I can't keep up with everyone's tank. What power heads are you using? HOB filter? Sump?

 

[Magellan]

Maybe aim the one on the right even more towards the surface, and the one on the left directly at the rock and then don’t put corals right there? Also: never used a fancy one, but do you not have the option to just reduce the flow by a percentage? The wave maker that ended up in my 65g fw is really easy to adjust that way and still has multiple modes.

 

[living_tribunal]

You’ve got to break it up somehow.

my centerpiece does that for me, you can see there are rock pieces right in front of the returns that I have the flow aimed at and I still use the mag float to redirect even more of it. And I’m at 18x turnover.

You may need to watch these on YouTube as the quality stinks embedded.

So here is the frag tank which I think I may have down ok right now:


Here’s the display with front right pump on else with heavy flow and back left on waves (no master slave):


Here’s display with master slave on else mode, the monti gets annihilated:

 

[living_tribunal]

I'm a horrible forum friend, I can't keep up with everyone's tank. What power heads are you using? HOB filter? Sump?

Two jebao ow25s. I have dual return from sump.

 

[Magellan]

You may need to watch these on YouTube as the quality stinks embedded.

So here is the frag tank which I think I may have down ok right now:


Here’s the display with front right pump on else with heavy flow and back left on waves (no master slave):


Here’s display with master slave on else mode, the monti gets annihilated:

The frag tank vid, my reaction was “man that’s a lot of flow!”

first display vid, reaction “what’s the problem here everything is fine” then realized it was the one with 1 powerhead. Second vid of display “man that’s a lot of flow!” lol

 

[living_tribunal]

Maybe aim the one on the right even more towards the surface, and the one on the left directly at the rock and then don’t put corals right there? Also: never used a fancy one, but do you not have the option to just reduce the flow by a percentage? The wave maker that ended up in my 65g fw is really easy to adjust that way and still has multiple modes.

This has both speed and flow to wave intensity settings but I don’t know if they work. My corals are tired of me trying to find out lol.