Despite a rather large GPH of flow in my tank, I still have a major problem with fish poop settling on the bottom. I think that it may be due in part to the fact that the tank is 30" tall. Anyways, I am thinking of adding a couple of nanostreams to solve this problem. How should they be positioned to keep things from settling to the bottom? Should I put them high in the tank, and point them down to the bottom? Should I put them near the bottom parallel to it? Or could I put them near the middle, pointed directly at the side, so that the water reflects off the glass and spreads out in all directions?
Flow Problem
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This is a difficult task and honestly I think periodic siphoning may be your best bet. Certain fish, most herbivores, eat gravel and have a gullet like birds to grind up the algae they eat and their poop is so dense that it is really challenging to get it all up with just flow.
Thank you both for your help. In this case, Roger is absolutely right. I just added a Kole Tang to my aquarium, and it is his poops that are building up. I have a four side viewable tank, so I really have no place to hide a full size stream, anyway. I guess that I just have to do more frequent water changes.
