What is considered low to medium flow?

[testuser]

I have a 4.8g DeskMate Eshopps bundle and will be receiving my corals tomorrow. Most are LPS which claim to require low to medium flow. I'm not really sure how to determine what that is, though. I am also using a Sicce Syncra Nano instead of the default from the bundle.

Given the above parameters, how would I achieve low-medium flow besides low coral placement? What setting should my Sicce be set to? Should it be set to medium? High? Should it be angled level with the top of the tank, or should it be tilted down? I'm a little bit lost for determining the correct flow rate for these corals, as low to medium feels ambiguous, especially without understanding how GPH for my Success translates in a 4.8g tank like mine. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[Waters]

I don't go by GPH as much as just by watching the coral. LPS and other fleshy coral just don't like to be blasted.....just adjust position (of both the pumps and the coral) or speed to allow the coral to have movement without the flesh being ripped off.

 

[Freenow54]

I have a 4.8g DeskMate Eshopps bundle and will be receiving my corals tomorrow. Most are LPS which claim to require low to medium flow. I'm not really sure how to determine what that is, though. I am also using a Sicce Syncra Nano instead of the default from the bundle.

Given the above parameters, how would I achieve low-medium flow besides low coral placement? What setting should my Sicce be set to? Should it be set to medium? High? Should it be angled level with the top of the tank, or should it be tilted down? I'm a little bit lost for determining the correct flow rate for these corals, as low to medium feels ambiguous, especially without understanding how GPH for my Success translates in a 4.8g tank like mine. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

In my case I just angled my power head to be almost level. Until I saw very little movement from coral

 

[crusso1993]

I have a 4.8g DeskMate Eshopps bundle and will be receiving my corals tomorrow. Most are LPS which claim to require low to medium flow. I'm not really sure how to determine what that is, though. I am also using a Sicce Syncra Nano instead of the default from the bundle.

Given the above parameters, how would I achieve low-medium flow besides low coral placement? What setting should my Sicce be set to? Should it be set to medium? High? Should it be angled level with the top of the tank, or should it be tilted down? I'm a little bit lost for determining the correct flow rate for these corals, as low to medium feels ambiguous, especially without understanding how GPH for my Success translates in a 4.8g tank like mine. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

Regardless of tank size, visual clues are always more important than flow rates. It’s a great thing that a site like this is around as some of us learned about keeping various corals and fish through trial and error. Unfortunately, error very often led to loss. As has been mentioned, find places the corals where there is not much water movement. This, of course, will depend on nozzle placement and rock structure. You may find you will have to do some tweaking but at 4.8g it could prove to be fun!

 

[testuser]

Thank you all for the great answers, and general consensus! All excellent points, and I will play with the parameters as I place the corals in the tank and watch how they react. Thanks again!