Using a spray bar for bottom flo

[Alba71]

Hi everyone
I am rescaping my tank which 2 canister filters which gives me plenty surface agitation. What I was thing was to use my Eheim return pump, attach a spray bar to it and have it positioned around an inch above the substrate at one end of the aquarium. I could run it on a timer, say just part of the day. My thinking is this would help clean up the bottom of the tank pushing detritus etc up into the filters and hopefully reduce any dead spots in the aquarium of which I have had issues in the past .
What do you think, a good or bad idea.
Obviously flo wouldn’t be too strong.
Tank is 121cm x 50cm high and 51cm deep,
306 litres
Cheers

 

[GlennO]

You could rig up something like that but I doubt that you need to. With 2 canisters it will be easy to create enough circulation that flows past the inlets. What canisters have you got?

 

[cdr63corv]

Worth a try, let us know how it works. I was using a spray bar with an fx2 and noticed I started getting blackbeard already. Read here in one of the posts flow can contribute to the algea. Removed the spray bar and the blackbeard algea almost disappeared. Just my observation in one of my tanks.

 

[Alba71]

You could rig up something like that but I doubt that you need to. With 2 canisters it will be easy to create enough circulation that flows past the inlets. What canisters have you got?

Hi I have 2 Eheim classic canisters one a 2217 the other a 2215 set up at opposite ends

 

[A201]

Maybe a simpler solution would be to attach a power head to the desired location and aim it accordingly.

 

[GlennO]

Hi I have 2 Eheim classic canisters one a 2217 the other a 2215 set up at opposite ends

Ok. If you attach the spray bars or at least one of them to the back wall it might generate better circulation back towards the inlets. Otherwise, a pump or powerhead to create some horizontal circulation is a good idea.