Whats happenning in your low flow areas?

I have two low flow areas of my tank (the very back corners of each end) and
these are the areas where a bit of mulm and detritus settle. The rocks in
these areas are a little bit furry, I wouldnt say hair algae YET but
definately furry LOL.

But the main noticable difference with these two areas is the amount of life
that is abundantly obvious. There is immense congregations of swaying, hair
fine red worms, very small feather dusters, pods of all shapes, larger
worms, lots of sand tubes with feelers extended (different feelers for
different species) extremely small bristle stars, lots of sand mounds from
yet unidentfied things and many many other unidentfied critters.

Do you have these low flow areas? I suppose if eventually hair algae does
grow and it stays contained in these two areas it would be OK .

It just amazes me the amount of life that these two areas have that I dont
see (at least not to this extent)in other more faster flow areas.
I have thought of somehow creating more flow in these areas but I'm sure
that I would loose a lot of these critters.

But theres the rub, do I loose the critters but maybe stem a hair algae
outbreak in these two areas or do I put up with a bit of algae growth and
enjoy this added biodiversity?

It sounds like you have a couple of great areas for growing pods that are being
ignored by your reeflings thus far.

They sounds almost like "cryptic zones" but I believe those have almost zero
flow. I'd have to review my info from last year's MACNA to be sure.

Add a mandarin and those will be gone. LOL

Marc


ReeFeR_MaN wrote:

I have two low flow areas of my tank (the very back corners of each end) and
these are the areas where a bit of mulm and detritus settle. The rocks in
these areas are a little bit furry, I wouldnt say hair algae YET but
definately furry LOL.

But the main noticable difference with these two areas is the amount of life
that is abundantly obvious. There is immense congregations of swaying, hair
fine red worms, very small feather dusters, pods of all shapes, larger
worms, lots of sand tubes with feelers extended (different feelers for
different species) extremely small bristle stars, lots of sand mounds from
yet unidentfied things and many many other unidentfied critters.

Do you have these low flow areas? I suppose if eventually hair algae does
grow and it stays contained in these two areas it would be OK .

It just amazes me the amount of life that these two areas have that I dont
see (at least not to this extent)in other more faster flow areas.
I have thought of somehow creating more flow in these areas but I'm sure
that I would loose a lot of these critters.

But theres the rub, do I loose the critters but maybe stem a hair algae
outbreak in these two areas or do I put up with a bit of algae growth and
enjoy this added biodiversity?

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