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Old 02-13-2005, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by NaCL H20 REEFER
P.S if ya wanna try some thing hook up a mag 24 on the tank at the top of the over flow and plumb around the tank and then loose the powerheads there you will have enough of the flow in the tank......
A mag 24 will not even come close to reproducing the natural level of flow in a 150 gal tank. If you have been swimming in a reef area there is a heck of a current, one that moves 1000's of gallons a second. we don't even come close to the flow nature has in our tanks. but there is a difference, depending how you set up that flow it could be to concentrated and I think that is what you are getting confused with, in nature it is a huge dispersed flow so it feels gentle, but if you use power heads you have a pinpoint flow that is hard in one spot and none in the others. I know I have been carried back and forth about 25 feet in a couple seconds by the currents on a reef so that not a low flow.

Steve
Nice post Steve, I was just waiting for you to chime in. Adaboy!!

Hey Steve, are you using those Seio PH's. What's your opinion of them?
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