Flow + Zoas

[Staggs]

Hey Guys,

I'm curious to how much flow is needed in a zoa dominate tank. I currently have a 85 gallon tank, and I have 2x MP40QD's that I typically run short pulse mode on with anti-sync at 20%. I mainly have mushrooms, zoa's and a couple frogspawn etc. (no sps). I want to say that a MP40QD does a minimum of 1k gph at all times no matter if you run it at 5% (glass thickness is to wide for the mp10).

From the stuff that I've learned it seems if a zoa is moving around quite a bit form the flow and it's kinda closed up that I can move it to another area (assuming it's on a plug) that has less flow and it will open up.

I'm wondering if I should try another mode like lagoon or something. But just generally interested in how much flow people have in zoa dominate tanks.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[joshporksandwich]

I have a lot of flow but if zoas are closed it might be too much.

 

[Fragzilla]

I've always run my MP10 on Lagoon mode (second yellow setting) and its deffinitely a case of more flow the better they look and healthier they are.

I have noticed problems going from high flow to low flow, but not seen any problems from low to more flow.

 

[DereksReef77]

What is alot of flow???Everyone's answers always seems to be so vague. No one really states the size of their setups and number of wavemakers in their setup. Say I have a 48×48×16 frag tank with 4 mp40wes in there running at 30%. Is that too much not enough? Seems that no matter what I do I am struggling with my zoas.