Tank water flow

[Paulie069]

Now I know I’m gonna hear flack from people doing this longer than me But here it goes
My personal opinion is that you should have a Heavy flow of water in tank for SEAHORSES to create a healthy current for them. It is true they r not strong swimmers but they spend most of time anchored to something down below. They use currents in wild as a transportation method. They will hold onto something and let current carry them as far as they want. In the ocean the current runs constantly and is ever changing I have found seahorses from a half a mile off shore all the way to 10 miles and there is plenty of current out there. So again I think strong water flow is better. At least it works for my ponies which all came from wild. Now store bought and bread seahorses might be different because they never been in ocean

 

[vonjankmon]

A combination of low and high flow is best in my experience but I have had plenty of ponies who loved high flow. I had one female that would swim up right next to my Vortech and then swim up into the flow to ride it across the tank, swim back below where the flow was low and then repeat the process for hours on end.

 

[Paulie069]

A combination of low and high flow is best in my experience but I have had plenty of ponies who loved high flow. I had one female that would swim up right next to my Vortech and then swim up into the flow to ride it across the tank, swim back below where the flow was low and then repeat the process for hours on end.

My horses do same thing all day. Not like they have much else to do

 

[matchmakersmagic]

I totally agree. 10x turn over in the tank and areas of both high and low flow.

 

[rayjay]

One of the main reasons we now go with higher flows than a decade and more ago is to help keep the crap in suspension long enough for the mechanical filtration to trap a lot more of it so it can be more frequently and much easier be removed before too much decay occurs.
While we have been recently recommending flow in at least the 10X range, many of us are more in the 20X range, give or take a bit.
My tanks exceed the 20X but I do have areas of low medium AND high flow, with hitching available in each area so that the seahorses can choose where they wish to be at any given time. The MAIN criteria for flow IMO is that it NOT be a flow that can blast the seahorses against something resulting in damage to the seahorse. There are many ways to deflect a strong flow so that it is spread out immediately at exit of the flow source.