Water Flow for WaterBox AIO 25 Peninsula

[cdxjones]

Hello everyone, I know this is a popular question and there are so many questions/answers to this topic but I just want to make sure I am understanding correctly.

My Setup: WaterBox AIO 25g Peninsula
Return Pump = Axis 40 (running at 90%)
Powerhead: Nero 3 (running between 25% and 42% @ 1104.2 GPH)
Protein Skimmer: AIO 120 from IceCap
Light: Kessil A360 XE Tuna Blue (running max 60%) Just replaced was running AI Prime 16HD
Live Stock: 2 clown fish, 2 blue leg hermit crabs (all others have died off and will be adding more cleaning crew this week), rainbow anemone, toad stool, green mushroom, and star polyps.

My question is on the Powerhead setting. In my reading I keep seeing 10x the size of your tank. Knowing I have a 25g tank using that math my GPH should be 250 gph. If you see above I currently show within the AI app to be running at 1104.2 GPH. Is this to strong? I do currently (last 3yrs) have had a bad breakout of long green algae. That will be a deferent topic to come soon. But that looks to be flowing nicely... lol

Any help in this matter is welcome.

Thank You

 

[Big Dog is cool]

I personally like a lot of flow in my aquariums.

It helps keeps things moving in the aquarium.

Think of your aquarium as a river.

A river flows constantly does it not.

Fish love movement in the aquarium.

The more the better.

Just don’t over do it where they can not swim in the water current in side the aquarium.

 

[Andy Sager]

I personally like a lot of flow in my aquariums.

It helps keeps things moving in the aquarium.

Think of your aquarium as a river.

A river flows constantly does it not.

While this is true, it does not flow constantly in the ocean or for the animals that live in it. There are periods called tides where the the water flows in one direction for near 6 hours, then it goes slack where it barely moves then goes in the opposite direction for near 6 hours. So you can't really compare a marine tank with a freshwater system like a river.

Fish love movement in the aquarium.

The more the better.

Just don’t over do it where they can not swim in the water current in side the aquarium.

 

[Andy Sager]

Hello everyone, I know this is a popular question and there are so many questions/answers to this topic but I just want to make sure I am understanding correctly.

My Setup: WaterBox AIO 25g Peninsula
Return Pump = Axis 40 (running at 90%)
Powerhead: Nero 3 (running between 25% and 42% @ 1104.2 GPH)
Protein Skimmer: AIO 120 from IceCap
Light: Kessil A360 XE Tuna Blue (running max 60%) Just replaced was running AI Prime 16HD
Live Stock: 2 clown fish, 2 blue leg hermit crabs (all others have died off and will be adding more cleaning crew this week), rainbow anemone, toad stool, green mushroom, and star polyps.

My question is on the Powerhead setting. In my reading I keep seeing 10x the size of your tank. Knowing I have a 25g tank using that math my GPH should be 250 gph. If you see above I currently show within the AI app to be running at 1104.2 GPH. Is this to strong?

Considering what you posted with losing some fish, I would consider slowing the powerhead down to 250-300 GPH. If it doesn't agree with your corals, you can always raise the flow.

I do currently (last 3yrs) have had a bad breakout of long green algae. That will be a deferent topic to come soon. But that looks to be flowing nicely... lol

Algae is the result of lighting and food ( nutrients). The lighting may be just the wrong spectrum. The food/nutrients can be nitrates, phosphates, dissolved organic matter or even too many hours of light. I would address these before adding more stock.

Any help in this matter is welcome.

Thank You

Hope this helps.

 

[cdxjones]

Considering what you posted with losing some fish, I would consider slowing the powerhead down to 250-300 GPH. If it doesn't agree with your corals, you can always raise the flow.

Algae is the result of lighting and food ( nutrients). The lighting may be just the wrong spectrum. The food/nutrients can be nitrates, phosphates, dissolved organic matter or even too many hours of light. I would address these before adding more stock.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for the reply. I did add the Kessil last week and I have noticed the algae is thinning out. I also added a mower blenny that was known from my LFS for eating what I had and they are correct, he is a fat little dude and it's only been 2 days. He was not fat when I got him. So I take that as a good sign. lol

 

[Andy Sager]

Thank you for the reply. I did add the Kessil last week and I have noticed the algae is thinning out. I also added a mower blenny that was known from my LFS for eating what I had and they are correct, he is a fat little dude and it's only been 2 days. He was not fat when I got him. So I take that as a good sign. lol

Oh yeah, there are many Blennies that will do a number on algae. I always liked the Firetail ( a.k.a. Bicolor) Blennies but you don't get to see that orange tail most of the time. You do get to see the teeth marks on the glass tho. LOL