I need a better flow

[woogy]

I have koralia #1 and #2. When I blow off my rocks with the turkey baster it just seems like the debris just settles back down to the rocks. I have the #2 positioned in the front pointing across the top of the water towards the back where the surface skimmer is for my skimmer. The #1 is positioned in the front pointing down across the glass. Any suggestions?

 

[metweezer]

I am using 2 maxijets with flow directors on my 29. One is on the back right (facing left) and the other is on my front left (facing right). It works for me.

 

[woogy]

should i place one blowing across my rock? I always wondered this.

 

[Flipper62]

TRY THIS....... On a 29 gal tank, you should be doing a 20% water change every 2 weeks. On your next water change, right before you start sucking the water out & cleaning the sand.......PUFF OFF the rocks & get the crap floating up in the water....Then suck it up with your syphon....After a few times of doing this in your water changes....you will see that it gets less & less every time.

It will never go away, because crap will always settle on the rocks, But if you do what I said above.....you will see that on every water change...there will be less crap.

 

[MTB]

Try syphoning the debris right of the rocks with the hose before stirring it up into the water column. I use a half inch hose and it works good for me.

It does sound like you need more flow. Maybe get another #2 or maybe even a #3. It helps to have at least one blowing across the rock. If it were my tank I would do two #3's on either side of the tank, slightly pointing at the front glass towards each other.

 

[eb8919]

You've got to find the happy medium where theres not too much flow but you can achieve a good water column. There will always be debris settling some where, so just as previously said, siphoning it out is a great way of reducing.

 

[MTB]

I should have mentioned that I turn off all pumps while syphoning the rocks off. Makes it easier to get that stuff out.

 

[Michael]

id have the phs at either end personally, pointing across the tank, and i have a koralia 1 myself, its pretty poor at turnover rate, if it were me id have 2 "s pointing at each other, however we all like different flow rates, im sure yours is fine it just needs adjustment

 

[fivesmallworlds]

What do you have for filtration?