i have 2 power heads in my tank unfortunately i used to buy fish and they would get sucked up into them because they were ignorant due to the fish stores good circulation. I was looking for a diy solution to my problem i tried placing some sponges in them but that doesn't help it just reduces the flow greatly so does the check valve built into the power head so I'm trying to stay with the flow i have right now. maybe someone has some sort of cage that has been used.
Yes, you can use a cage. It's got to be built large enough to keep the fish from being sucked into it. You want to use something that is fairly rigid, and also easy to clean.
What sort of powerheads are you referring? Most of them that I have seen or owned have a cage to prevent fish from being sucked into them (unless the fish is VERY weak.)
it more applies to new fish that i have just introduced into my tank after acclimating it. i know that they are 50 gallons a piece so two of them have more than enough power to keep my tank circulated all the time. I had a golbi and he was fine due to the fact that he stayed at the bottom yet i bought a clown fish he was small and very young not sure if it was a bad thing to introduce him into such a big tank i think he was only like an inch or so. But getting back to what i was saying the power heads i own are Power head 820's. They only have this cone looking thing that makes the inlet smaller making more water pressure or more sucking power at least.
If your fish are getting sucked into powerheads then I would look at the quality of fish you are getting or the quality of your water parameters as no fish should get sucked into a power head unless it is dying or severly weakened because of tank conditions.
um ok well i never thought it was because they r weak i always selected the best fish when i pick them out or thought that i did. I know its not due to copper to keep them alive and the shock w/o it makes them weak it defiantly not that i only go to one lfs and they have always been good they keep fish and corals and inverts all in the same tanks its all a mixture of a reef the fish always seem healthy i don't buy fish with ick or itch or sickly looking fish they always seem very lively i feed them when they were introduced and dripped acclimated for 3 hrs or so. maybe I'm not selecting them correctly.
I never said it was your fault, but there is something going wrong somewhere so lets figure out what is going on? Perhaps water quality or stray voltage or something is going on.
Stray voltage ????? what u mean? never heard of that i am more than willing to tell u anything u need to know to correct my probs with my tank i would love to have a beautifull tank someday but it will be a long time i think.
Stray voltage can come from lights, power heads, heaters, anything that is electrical (and we have a lot of that) which comes in contact with the water in our tanks either directly or sometimes indirectly (via salt creep).
A grounding probe in every tank is a must (In my opinion) but that is a quick fix. Occasionally you should test your system with a voltmeter to see if you are getting stray voltage into the tank. If you do, then you should isolate the problem and fix it.
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150 gal Custom Born 5/7/07 w/8 bulb ATI PowerModule for lighting. 50gal & 29gal Sumps. 20gal Fuge w/sunblaze 4 bulb T5 lighting. 30gal Frag Tank w/150w 20k Radium for light. Orca 200 Skimmer.
i know its deff not that i just had cleaned all my creep of the top of my tank about once a week maybe its still possible that it could happen i am an electrican so how do you test it just take a multimeter and test from the water to ground i dont think that will work how r u testing a leeking voltage is what we call it in the trade. And how do u mean making a grounding probe what is it and how does it work is there any diy projects to do it?
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