placement of powerheads

[Salt Freak]

Where is the best place to put a powerhead near the bottom of the tank in the middle of the tank or near the top of the tank?

 

[1152 Flying Fish]

For a reef tank or fish only? need more details.

 

[TBLightningFan]

The best placement is whereever you can provide the most ideal water flow around live rock and you also want to make sure you are breaking the water tension to help the water oxygenate.

 

[pleder]

It will also depend on what is being kept in the tank. It might be a good idea to direct flow to or around certain corals in coraltion with there needs.

 

[Fishy411]

ok. If this is for yur 30 i would say one at the surface and one blowing across the tank. try in the back corner to the opposite front corner.

 

[Salt Freak]

this is for my reef.

 

[Navarre]

Personally for a reef i would advise high turbukance rather than current. If you can direct 2 powerheads at each other then this will create alot of turbulance rather than a flow around the tank.

The best effects for this is to have a powerhead in the back corner of side of the tank. direct them forwards to the centre front glass and they will clash here causing a mixture in the flow rather than a current as you would find in a rivver. the constant buffering from all driections is more natural for corals as they soon get stressed if they are under high flow in the same direction al lthe time.

 

[Fishy411]

dont forget to have one agitating the surface to keep it from growing an algae film

 

[Great Lakes]

wITHOUT ANY KIND OF WAVE TIMER, nAVARRE HAS THE BEST ANSWER.

Oops, didn't mean to shout..

As said, corals are used to being buffered from many direstons in their natural environment.

In a 30 gallon, strength of flow is not much of an issue. It is not to large for even a smaller powerhead to give you satisfactory results.

For this reason, I would get three or four smaller powerheads instead of one or two large ones.

If you were to look around, for 100ish dollars, you can get a three powerhead wavetimer strip combo. This would make you happy slappy.

GL

 

[Fishy411]

u can make waves without a wave timer too i think.

 

[Salt Freak]

Do the fish like bieng thrown around the tank with the powerheads?