No Powerheads in 30g Kuda tank?

[chrisbenavides]

I am very "weary" about not using any powerheads for my new 30g Kuda tank. The only water movement is the skimmer and the HO Penguin Filter (with only a carbon big in it). Other than that, no other flow. There is about 25 pounds of live rock (stacked up in a corner), which helps hide the powerhead that runs the skimmer.

Is there such thing as to little flow in a seahorse tank?

Just concerned about algae blooms. I noticed that when my freshwater tanks would have very low flow, I would have more algae.

So what I did today was take out the powerhead (don't have the Kudas yet), and placed it in my reef tank (which now has 21.5 gph flow).

How can I test to see if I have good flow? Is there someway to tell (non-scientifically is cool too), as long it works, how much flow I have (if it is enough)???

THANKS!!!

 

[Swanwillow]

I have a power head in my horse tank... the way yours was aimed as too much flow going directly into the tank... try placing it behind the rocks-do some re-aquascaping, so its diverted over the rocks, but don't leave an area that the horses can get stuck in between the powerhead and the rock...

 

[Fredfish]

you could also try to split the flow of the powerhead output to distribute the flow a little. I did this using a 1/2" 90 degree pbci pipe elbow by drilling a hole the sixe of the outlet on the 90 degree bend. I then put the powerheat output into that hole. This split the water output into two streams at 90 degrees to each other.

Fred

 

[chrisbenavides]

yeah the powerhead is no longer ion that place....it was just intended to be there to mix up the water during cycling. The powerhead is now in my other tank.

I posted this on seahorse.org, and I was told that I may have just enough flow, since the filter is 175 gph, and skimmer is probably miving the water a little too. The 175 gph, if indeed thats what goes back into the tank, is giving me about 5-6x flow rate.

THANKS!!!