POWER HEAD QUESTION

reeferchief

reeferchief

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florida joe

florida joe

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Unfortunately in my opinion. The number and placement of power heads is a trial and error undertaking. But things to remember are. We are looking at water movement rather than GPH. Most power heads give laminar water movement. You are better served with a power head or heads that oscillates. You are trying to simulate water movement on an ocean reef which benefits your closed system by removing waste products and sediment from corals. Add in bio filtration and bring nutrients to invertebrates, corals and clams and add in gas exchange. On the down side too much movement can cause the development of stinging sweeper tentacles on some corals may constantly stir up your substratum and cause salt creep. All in all as I have stated above it is a trial and error undertaking
 
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saxman

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The other question that begs an answer would be what are you keeping in the tank? Reef? FO?
Personally, I haven't been crazy about the oscillating PH's, esp. the Power-Sweep. Back when I used PH's, I had one that I had to disassemble a couple of times a week to keep the oscillating feature working . If you want to run a couple of PH's, I'd look into the little electronic wavemaker that Current USA imports. They do a nice job of switching two small pumps/PH's (they also have a quad version).
 
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