I'm not sure if these two questions are related or if one answers another, but:
(1) Almost every other day or so, I find one of my turbo snails have fallen off the glass and are upside down on the sandbed (not a good position for them, since they can't right themselves). Luckily, I haven't lost any yet due to this, and they go right back to slithering around once I right them. But is this normal? If not, any ideas on the cause?
(2) I have an AquaClear Powerhead 402 in my 45 gallon hex, placed about 1/4 of the way from the top, aimed off the middle of the tank (almost at a 1/3 cut, if you picture the tank from a bird's eye view). The flow is set to a low flow (yellow control knob near the negative, directional flow knob about 60% in the "outflow" direction). Though the force of flow doesn't APPEAR extreme as my fish are swimming happy and the live stuff on my rocks are not all swaying in gail force winds, is this too much flow rate from this unit for a hexagon shaped tank? Could this flow rate be the cause of my snails becoming dislodged?
I can try posting a picture of my tank later tonight, if it helps.
(1) Almost every other day or so, I find one of my turbo snails have fallen off the glass and are upside down on the sandbed (not a good position for them, since they can't right themselves). Luckily, I haven't lost any yet due to this, and they go right back to slithering around once I right them. But is this normal? If not, any ideas on the cause?
(2) I have an AquaClear Powerhead 402 in my 45 gallon hex, placed about 1/4 of the way from the top, aimed off the middle of the tank (almost at a 1/3 cut, if you picture the tank from a bird's eye view). The flow is set to a low flow (yellow control knob near the negative, directional flow knob about 60% in the "outflow" direction). Though the force of flow doesn't APPEAR extreme as my fish are swimming happy and the live stuff on my rocks are not all swaying in gail force winds, is this too much flow rate from this unit for a hexagon shaped tank? Could this flow rate be the cause of my snails becoming dislodged?
I can try posting a picture of my tank later tonight, if it helps.