I am new to the hobby and was wondering if adding a aquaclear 110 would add to much flow to my tank. I have a 26 gallon bow front with an eheim 2232 (127gph) and a aquaclear 30 (174gph) powerhead. The reason I was asking was I am planning on primarily going to keep lps in my tank. I have seen a mod to make this filter an aquafuge to keep my micro algae down. Let me know what any of you guys think. also thanks in advance.
ac 110 mod
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Justin74
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Im assuming you dont have a return pump and are using both for intank powerheads, that still only makes 11X turn over, you have PLENTY of room to add more movement. With an LPS tank I would strive for at least 30, wanna make sure you get any tenticles waving. The only problem I incurred with that mod was still the same problem I incurred by just simply using it as a filter. When the water evaporates and it will you can develop some pretty good splash from it pouring back into the tank in return, let alone salt creep. I havent seen the mod for the past year, have they fixed this issue?
-Justin
-Justin
not for sure if they have fixed. 1 of my friends just set his tank up and purchased one really cheap and was wondering if I wanted to buy it. I feel that I have a micro algae issue since I have to scrape it every 4 or so days. I do not have a sump either. Do you think if i did add one it would affect my two percs and my yellow watchman goby? (my wife loves them.
John
John
I have a ac110 as a fuge on my 30 gal nano. I removed everything from and including the baskets and filled it half full of lr rubble and the top half with caulerpa and cheato morpha. I cut the sponge in half long ways and put it at overflow to keep macro algea in and to help reduce the flow. I have a 13 w pc light on top. It grows pods like crazy and i have to cut macro algea back every 3 weeks or so....WORKS GREAT.
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