too many koralia's?

i keep seeing people say "you can never have enough flow". BUT last night i looked at my "tank turn over rate?" and either i dont understand something or i have WAY to much flow. i have a 29 gal,40 lbs l/r ,remora C w/maxijet 1200, & 2 koralia 2's & 1 koralia 1. so to the question is this average? also no other filter or sump in my system.

 

Depending on the type of corals you want to keep, this might be too much. SPS would love that. Euphylliids and some other fleshy LPS won't.

 

thank you inwall

 

I have a 40 with two K1's and one K2. I had to position the rocks so that there is a lower flow area for the Frogspawn. As things grow, I could probably go with three K2's.

I tried a K3, but it really whipped everything around. For an all SPS it would have been good.

 

two k1's & one k2 in a 40 lol yeah i think i over shot this one lol oops:-[ i just bought my first coral friday;D a green polyp leather. and ive managed to keep alive two hitchhikers a gorgonian & yellow polyps for 4 months and their growing.for what i understand sps are NOT for beginners like myself.and thats fine, plenty out for me right now anyway

 

vankirk

your corals themselves will be the best judge of your tanks flow
having multiple sources of water movement is good IMO
having 1 or 2 larger power heads, is not as easy to adjust conditions to suite various corals as it would be having 3 or 4 smaller ones
and you can always take one out if you need to and expirement with the number and placement of what you have until you "feel" the corals are happy

Steve

 

K+ on having multiple power heads... IMO it's best to have many of one.. Because let's say your power head fails. And you had only 2 that are strong.. You just halved your flow, not good.. But if you have like 4 of them with regular flow. One fails and you are still ok cuz it's not much less of a flow.
Ofcourse te number of powerheads will definately vary depending on tank size.

 

power heads are good but it wont take the place of filteration, even with good water movement your gunna need to put something in place to take care of some bio load.

 

My tanks average between 35 and 40x turnover rate. On the 100G thats accomplished with a OR 3500 return pump, OR 3500 closed loop through an Oceans Motions Squirt, two Koralia K4's, one modified with a MJ mod prop and a Koralia K3. In the 16G bowfront its with a modified AC 500 refugium, a Koralia K1 and a smaller Rio powerhead.
Both systems contain mixed softies and SPS and both have Southdown sugar sized sand, 5-6" in the 100 and 2-3" in the 16, which stays in place even with the high flows. The corals and substrate tell me if the flow is too much or not.

 

you could have too much flow, if your substrate is creating a sandstorm of fish are plastered against the glass