Watch your flow!!

[olsaltybastard]

I have two Tunze 6100's on magnet mounts and tend to move them around a lot to keep things stirred up. Well, I accidentally placed the pump in such a way that it put direct flow onto one of my SPS corals. Needless to say, I can't kick myself hard enough for being complacent. I now have the controller to reduce laminar flow on any coral should I get another case of stupid. Here are the before and after pics. I am hoping that the coral will eventually pull through as there is still about 1/2 of the skin still intact; the rest is already covered with algae (man that stuff grows fast!!)

 

[Murfman]

I just lost an Acro SPS. It could be from too much direct flow from my SEIO 820. It did the same thing as yours.

 

[kevinpo]

Ouch! Hope it recovers for you.
I have mine set to go from 30% to 100% flow every 12 seconds.

Regards,
Kevin

 

[JaxReef]

can I see more pics of the 2nd shot of the coral? I would like to see different angles of the coral

 

[olsaltybastard]

The batteries in my camera just died as I attempted to take a few more pics. I'll try to get some this weekend.

 

[class clown]

Ive had it happen beofre too on a big piece of monti. just about kicked myself too..

is that a turaki?

 

[class clown]

is that a turaki?

sorry.. correction: "was" that a turaki ?

 

[olsaltybastard]

To be perfectly honest, I don't know the names of any corals in my tank.

 

[Snappy]

I have my Tunze's set at about 30-80% every 6 seconds and seems to do the trick. To me that acro looks like a deep water specimen which in my experience seem to like a more gentle flow.

 

[SueT]

I don't believe that to be an A. turaki. I have one and the colony is a bit more slender branched and more highly fused branches.

 

[Snappy]

I have a few types of acro's that I was told are deep water but I don't know their names. This one reminded me of one of them with it's smooth looking texture and branch formation. I am no expert so I may be way off base.

 

[matts125]

Thats too bad that was a nice lookin acro! I hope it recovers...

Matt

 

[olsaltybastard]

I have my Tunze's set at about 30-80% every 6 seconds and seems to do the trick. To me that acro looks like a deep water specimen which in my experience seem to like a more gentle flow.

You may be onto something there. It's not like it was directly in front of the Tunze; there are other acro's that are much closer and could care less. I may move it to an area of lower flow and see what happens. The good news is that it didn't fully bleach out. I lost about the top 40% and the rest seem to be hanging in there. I also read the instructions to the 7095 controller and they are now pulsing rather than blowing full stream.