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Biocube 14 Livestock: Sexy Shrimp - 4 Emerald Crab Firefish Snow Flake Clown Mandarin Filtration: Pump - Cobolt Aquatics MJ900 Filter Basket by InTank Filter Media - poly fill, charcoal Chaeto reactor (Installed 1/27/18) Water Maintenance: Hydrofill ATO TI Aquatic Life RO/DI refill and ATO water Substrate: 20 lbs Gulf live sand from Gulfliverock Live Rock: 17 lbs Premium live rock from Gulfliverock.com Salt: Fritz PRO RPM salt Heater: Cobolt Aquatics Neo-therm 50 watt Additional Water Movement: Aquamai KPS Dosing: Kalkwasser (3/4 tsp in 1 gallon ATO refilled weekly) 2.5 ml phytoplankton daily Lighting: Nano Box Mini M lighting cycle: **updated 1-6-18 Morning - start at 6:30, length - 150 minutes, morning ramp 90 minutes Royal blue - 60% White/lime - 5% Violet - 70% Cyan/blue - 60% moonlight 0 Fan 86 Midday - ramp 90 minutes Royal blue -85% White/lime - 38% Violet - 90% Cyan/Blue - 80% moonlight 0 Fan 86 Evening - length 180 minutes, evening ramp 90 minutes Royal blue - 60% White/lime - 15% Violet - 60% Cyan/blue - 55% moonlight - 3 Fan 85 Night - start at 7:30, ramp 60 minutes Royal blue - 4% White/lime - 0% Violet - 0% Cyan/blue - 0% moonlight -1 Fan 0

Hey there fellow reefers, I was wondering how you guys position your powerheads. Current setup is a Biocube 14 with a Koralia 425 in the middle of the first chamber and a hydor flo on the output which is in the third chamber. I have a second powerhead(koralia 245) which ive been using for over 9 years but i was noticing a ton of algae blooms and a slight nitrate spike so i upgraded the flow. So my question is how do you guys position your flow to maximize benefits. I still have the original output pump that came with the tank... thoughts on upgrading or dont fix what aint broke? I put a diagram of the tank from above. Blue is the possible powerhead position. (thinking of putting both powerheads in there) Red is the Hydor Flo.

I was going to forego putting a heater in my Biocube 14 since I live on the gulf coast (its warm down here) but have decided to be better safe than sorry. That said, any recommendations for a heater that can be placed in one of the chambers (I assume the first chamber) in a biocube 14?