This will allow you to place your wave pumps in the back areas of the aquarium and use both the glass aquarium wall and your rock work to direct water current throughout the entire aquascape. If your reef aquarium has a rock wall, leave enough space behind it for a strong water current. When you aquascape your aquarium, ideally you want to leave adequate room for your corals to grow while also providing circulation throughout the entire aquarium. They’ll also be getting more direct water flow. If you’re keeping a lot of SPS corals, place them in the middle to upwards portion of your aquarium where they not only will get more light.
SPS corals love water flow and they can handle a lot more direct strong current. If you have any corals in your aquarium with stinging sweep or tentacles such as a torch coral, you’ll want to ensure you position your wave pumps in a location that provides them indirect water current and doesn’t encourage their tentacles to sting other corals at night. Many large soft corals also rely on water flow to stay upright so positioning your pumps in a location that provides them indirect pulsing water currents will keep them standing up and in their natural state.
If you’re keeping LPS corals or any invertebrate with long tentacles, you want to make sure that you’re not positioning your wave pumps where they’re providing direct water flow that’s too strong and may damage their soft tissue and at the same time, you want to ensure that they’re not positioned in a location where those long tentacles make it sucked up and damaged.Ī better way to ensure your corals get strong indirect water flow is to utilize the glass panels of your aquarium and your aquascape to deflect water around the entire aquarium. But it’s important to know what flow mode and where you position your pumps, how that will affect your corals, and ensure that you won’t damage them. And be sure to stick around because at the end of the video we’re going to give you some additional tips that help make sure you’re focusing on your beautiful corals and your fish and not on your wave pumps.Īlmost all corals love water flow and virtually every reef hobbyist will tell you one of the key elements in a successful reef aquarium is providing them with optimal water flow. Your corals depend on it for gas exchange, for maintaining pH, and just the overall health of the coral. Here are some tips on choosing the best location in your aquarium for your wave pumps. Next to aquarium lighting water flow and water movement in your aquarium is probably one of the most important elements you can depend on for a successful reef.
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