Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[living_tribunal]

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

Well the frag tank had insane flow until an hour ago because the two pumps collide. It’s got two hydor Koralia nanos.

 

[Why-Me]

I like the one pump, low flow.
Frag tank looks fine.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Two jebao ow25s. I have dual return from sump.

OW25 is a lot of pump for a 10g tank. Especially two of them. I probably would have gone with the 10. Try setting them on the lowest flow on W1. W2 ignores your speed setting if you didnt know that already...

 

[Magellan]

I like the one pump, low flow.
Frag tank looks fine.

Get less flow on the Goni if possible, Mine has grown more on the side that gets less.

Other than that I think you are good there, first time I watched I thought your Xenia was the goni, but those do fine in just about any conditions

 

[living_tribunal]

OW25 is a lot of pump for a 10g tank. Especially two of them. I probably would have gone with the 10. Try setting them on the lowest flow on W1. W2 ignores your speed setting if you didnt know that already...

The ow25s are in my 65g display.

The frag tank is running two koralia nanos.

 

[living_tribunal]

The ow25s are in my 65g display.

The frag tank is running two koralia nanos.

And THANK YOU for telling me about w2 ignoring my speed setting. I take it else mode ignores speed and pump vs flow as well?

 

[living_tribunal]

Get less flow on the Goni if possible, Mine has grown more on the side that gets less.

Other than that I think you are good there, first time I watched I thought your Xenia was the goni, but those do fine in just about any conditions

My goni loves a lot of flow. He's small in the pic as the lights just went down but really loves the higher flow.

 

[living_tribunal]

I like the one pump, low flow.
Frag tank looks fine.

So running the right hand pump indisplay on else mode (really fast atm) and then the second pump on low w1 flow?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

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:

Both of those look fine to me. If the Jebaos were programmable, inwpuld suggest use the second(3rd) video as a mid day swell or high tide flow pattern for a few hours and leave the rest of the day on the lower flow setting. That monti can handle all the flow those OWs can throw at it. Your fleshy LPS are the ones you want to watch. The euphyllia on the right looks fine in both, but the first would be my preference for an all day flow.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

The ow25s are in my 65g display.

The frag tank is running two koralia nanos.

Ok, 10g frag and 65 display... I think I'm reading the same book now. Definitely not on same chapter yet tho. :p ;)

 

[Why-Me]

Both of those look fine to me. If the Jebaos were programmable, inwpuld suggest use the second(3rd) video as a mid day swell or high tide flow pattern for a few hours and leave the rest of the day on the lower flow setting. That monti can handle all the flow those OWs can throw at it. Your fleshy LPS are the ones you want to watch. The euphyllia on the right looks fine in both, but the first would be my preference for an all day flow.

+1
So much this!! ^^

 

[living_tribunal]

Both of those look fine to me. If the Jebaos were programmable, inwpuld suggest use the second(3rd) video as a mid day swell or high tide flow pattern for a few hours and leave the rest of the day on the lower flow setting. That monti can handle all the flow those OWs can throw at it. Your fleshy LPS are the ones you want to watch. The euphyllia on the right looks fine in both, but the first would be my preference for an all day flow.

Whenever my monti takes hits like that, his polyps close and he whitens out. He likes the slow consistent flow and big thrashes smashing his polyps every 10 seconds which is what I used to have on else mode but something happened with their positioning, not sure.

These two on master slave used to create perfect waves. the water in my tank would go up and down about an inch or two back and forth. Now it's all jittery if that makes sense.

There is also some weird like sandbed ground swell that circles around and makes some of the lower lps get a little too much flow.

I feel like I'm going nut here!

Sorry for the spam again :/ all of this is very helpful.

 

[Why-Me]

Whenever my monti takes hits like that, his polyps close and he whitens out. He likes the slow consistent flow and big thrashes smashing his polyps every 10 seconds which is what I used to have on else mode but something happened with their positioning, not sure.

These two on master slave used to create perfect waves. the water in my tank would go up and down about an inch or two back and forth. Now it's all jittery if that makes sense.

There is also some weird like sandbed ground swell that circles around and makes some of the lower lps get a little too much flow.

I feel like I'm going nut here!

Sorry for the spam again :/ all of this is very helpful.

You'll figure it out, these things take time.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

This is why I love my gyre pump and the rpms. The gyre creates a wide flat sheet of current that goes around the tank clockwise, and the rpms have an ultra wide flow pattern that mixes everything up in the middle.

 

[living_tribunal]

You'll figure it out, these things take time.

I'm sure these guys can take another day of being ticked off lol. Might just sync them both on w1 with pump wave making all the way up.

Just trying to get that random action you know. Flow is so tough.

 

[living_tribunal]

This is why I love my gyre pump and the rpms. The gyre creates a wide flat sheet of current that goes around the tank clockwise, and the rpms have an ultra wide flow pattern that mixes everything up in the middle.

With how much I'm messing with flow, I think I might pickpick up a maxspect. Would I need two for the 65?

 

[SashimiTurtle]

With how much I'm messing with flow, I think I might pickpick up a maxspect. Would I need two for the 65?

I have one IceCap 3k on a 36x24x24" 90g with 2 Reef Breeder RP-Ms on the back wall. If you move your OW25s to the back, youd be fine with one Gyre. Icecap just came out with the new 2K and 4K models.

 

[Magellan]

Watch some video of Goni’s in the wild, I immediately went and changed my flow on mine after I saw what a huge colony looks like. Granted yours is a completely different species from a different part of the world!

100% with @Robin Haselden on lots of flow for sps and much less for the LPS. Ultimately, most of your corals will adapt to a range of conditions, just give them time to adjust once you find something you like. Also, if you get to a point where all but one or 2 corals are super happy, maybe just move those corals to a better flow spot and then don’t touch anything for the rest of time! Or at least until the colonies get so massive the flow is completely different lol

 

[NY_Caveman]

Katrina, I thought this was the best of the songs she performed.

 

[Katrina71]

any idea of type of Leapord wrasse

Mine? Lol. Robin beat me. I was gonna say ornate on first glance too.