65 g powerheads

Hi guys i was wondering where to place my korilla 3 powerheads i have two. Where do i place them inside the tank. I have them at the front but it looks like the two clownfish are sturrgling to swim. I just got the clown fish is it ok to keep the white day time light on.

 

more toward the top of the tank for good gas exchange and across from each other for more chaotic flow example: <.......................>

 

toward the front or rear

 

either or it depends on what u like and coral placement sum corals like different flow

 

I like opposing sides, toward the back 3/4 of the way up and each aimed slightly toward the front. Here is how I used to have mine;

 

I have one Maxi-jet prop pump tha pushes 1000gph in my 40m gal blowing across the top of my tank and it does good

 

Hm. I feel like my acrylic 40 gallon bows quite a bit so i keep my powerheads on each side flowing the length of the tank into eachother. Gives a bit of chaotic flow. I dunno if my worry is legitimate though (as in if the powerheads blowing at the front of the tank would make it bow more). But i would say the further away they are from eachother the better, at least for my tank. Pushes more water with less jet stream action.

 

should i run the powerhead 24/7 even when feeding

 

I turn off my pumps and PHs when I feed. I can better control the amount that I feed. Very very little if any does not get eaten.

 

Unless you are target feeding coral or just feeding coral phyto or something of that nature, I leave them on. The chaotic blowing of food makes the fish act more natural and have to "hunt" down the food which provides exercise for them. Your clean up crew will get any the fish don't find, which will be minimal.