Goldie
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Hi all - just hoping for your thoughts please on powerheads / water flow.
My tank is 6' with quite a lot of live rock, mixed fish and atm just softies
I am in the unenviable position of having had my second Vortech MP40 go caput.
I initially had 2 - one on each end working together, and with battery backup.
One went bump about a year, maybe more, ago and because Ive been debating whether to pack up or not I just put a basic powerhead in its place to tide me over (excuse the pun
). Its not been the same, and the icing on the cake was last night when, having just fed and gone for the last few days, I noticed the second one had stopped and it was all a bit gunky.
I have put the tunze I keep for mixing salt in to give flow....but I made the mistake of putting the bloody magnets too close and can't get them apart now, so I had to put them both in and try to fix them with the vortech dry side .....so it looks very dodgy and I have no control over it whatsoever....
What I am getting to (sorry for the ramble) is that I guess I am going to need to get this sorted now (its kind of got further up the list into the unavoidable expense list) is what your thoughts are on powerheads and flow for a tank this size - do I replace with fresh vortechs or do I put something else in.....I accept that the world has moved on since I last dealt with this issue about 7 years ago and I'm not as up to date as I could be....
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance !!
Gail
My tank is 6' with quite a lot of live rock, mixed fish and atm just softies
I am in the unenviable position of having had my second Vortech MP40 go caput.
I initially had 2 - one on each end working together, and with battery backup.
One went bump about a year, maybe more, ago and because Ive been debating whether to pack up or not I just put a basic powerhead in its place to tide me over (excuse the pun
). Its not been the same, and the icing on the cake was last night when, having just fed and gone for the last few days, I noticed the second one had stopped and it was all a bit gunky. I have put the tunze I keep for mixing salt in to give flow....but I made the mistake of putting the bloody magnets too close and can't get them apart now, so I had to put them both in and try to fix them with the vortech dry side .....so it looks very dodgy and I have no control over it whatsoever....
What I am getting to (sorry for the ramble) is that I guess I am going to need to get this sorted now (its kind of got further up the list into the unavoidable expense list) is what your thoughts are on powerheads and flow for a tank this size - do I replace with fresh vortechs or do I put something else in.....I accept that the world has moved on since I last dealt with this issue about 7 years ago and I'm not as up to date as I could be....
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance !!
Gail
