The primary functions of flow are to keep oxygen and nutrient-rich water flowing around the corals and to prevent detritus from settling and decaying before mechanical filtration has an opportunity to remove it.
The WaveEngine is capable of repeatedly ramp up flow pumps to achieve a cleaner aquarium system, which will encourage healthy growing corals and help remove nutrients.
Here is one of the “CoralVue Favorite” schedules.
This schedule will allow you to run all your pumps at max speed for 10 minutes at the top of every hour from 010:00 am until 10:00 pm.
Creating Hurricane Schedule
Following the instructions to Create a Schedule [1], configure your new Hurricane Schedule with the following values:
- Type – Set it to “Flow Pattern”
- Pattern – Set it to either “Square Wave” or “Sine Wave”
- Speed Range – Set the range from 1 to 100%.
- Cycle Duration – 00:01:00.000
- Pump Count – Set this to the desired number of pumps you want to run when this schedule is active.
TIP: The Pump Count is not a dropdown field. It is a slider. To change the number of pumps, place your finger on the blue number and slide left or right to decrease or increase pumps. - Pump # – Select each pump you want to add to the schedule.
- Position # – Select the position you want this pump to assume when running in this schedule.
WARNING: You MUST select a pump. If you leave this field blank, then your pumps will not run. ONLY pumps assigned to a schedule will automatically run. - Allow Reverse – Do Not Enable
- Active Modes: Select the modes you want this schedule to run on. i.e., Run this during your Normal Mode but not during your Feed or Water Change Mode.
- Run every N Days – Set this to 1
- Run On Days of Week – Select ALL days of the week
- Depends On – Unused
- Enable Advanced Settings – Enable this feature
- Input – Leave it Unused
- Start Time – 10:00:00
- Run Time – 00:10:00
- Run Count – 12
- Run Interval – 01:00:00
- Control Input – None