Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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.