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FraggledRock
03/04/2015, 09:20 AM
I recently had to tak emy system apart and I re aquascaped last night with acrylic rods.

i love the direction the scape is going, however I am not sure if the flow will be impacted and if there will be issues with flow and coral placement in relation to the pump

iI am running an MP10 and 2 hydor koralias.

here are some pics, i am still going to tweak it, but will flow be restricted with the height of the rocks and can corals be damaged by the output flow is >12 away from the pump wet side?

http://s18.postimg.org/w7uryumqd/image1.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/w7uryumqd/)

http://s18.postimg.org/lmfyjymqd/image2.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/lmfyjymqd/)

http://s18.postimg.org/85dy3z639/image3.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/85dy3z639/)

http://s18.postimg.org/86sxuie8l/image4.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/86sxuie8l/)

thanks!

FraggledRock
03/04/2015, 10:33 AM
le bump?

thegrun
03/04/2015, 03:01 PM
It depends upon the coral. I have some Gorgonian corals directly in front 6" away from my MP-10's, same with SPS corals. Low flow corals would need a different location.

FraggledRock
03/04/2015, 03:04 PM
It depends upon the coral. I have some Gorgonian corals directly in front 6" away from my MP-10's, same with SPS corals. Low flow corals would need a different location.

My main concern for this was for SPS and bright lighting dependent corals.

sounds like I am good =)

so I wont change the course for what I planed on my coral placement =)

thanks!