Cube Flow Question for First Corals

Mandurion · Jan 30, 2019

Hey there,

Well I have added my first group of corals and a BTA! Everything seems to be going fine so far but I just have a few questions to get the most out of my tank. I will go ahead and post my water parameters for reference.

Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78.2-78.6
pH: 8.2
Nitrates: 5-10
Phosphates: 0.08
Alkalinity: 8.1
Calcium: 447
Magnesium: 1300

My question to you guys is about best flow options for my SCA 50 Cube tank. I currently have a Icecap 1K Gyre pump running in the gyre mode swapping direction every 5 seconds at 40% power. I am currently trying to get my return nozzles back on(randomly took them off to clean and won't go back on) .

My tank will be mostly LPS dominated with some soft corals to start out but I have been trying to figure out the best position for my powerhead with my aquascape. The frogspawn looked like it was leaning to one side heavily with one direction flow so I swapped to reverse gyre mode. Any helpful suggestions to get the most out of these corals? Thanks in advance!

KrisReef · Jan 30, 2019

I’m not familiar with the output of the gyre, but in the picture it doesn’t appear to be disturbing the water surface too much?

tupes · Jan 30, 2019

First just wondering how old your tank is?

Every thing except the green star polyp likes low to medium flow. All LPS if blasted with high flow can cause the flesh to pull off the skeleton.

I've seen Gsp grow on the output nozzles being blasted with flow and they are fully open.

Mandurion · Jan 30, 2019

tupes said:
First just wondering how old your tank is?

Every thing except the green star polyp likes low to medium flow. All LPS if blasted with high flow can cause the flesh to pull off the skeleton.

I've seen Gsp grow on the output nozzles being blasted with flow and they are fully open.

The tank is about 2 1/2 months old.

Yeah, i knew majority was low to medium flow. I started at just constant one direction flow at 20% and they seemed okay. Figured different direction flow would help.