Quote Originally Posted by CoryDude View Post
One of our Board Members (bstreep) was running more than 10X on his tank (I believe). His tank actually became too sterile using the Hiatt. He has a few posts on RC on some older threads on RC regarding his Hiatt experience.

From what Snake has explained, the bacteria settle everywhere in the tank, not just in the carbon tube. They will not be ejected out of the tube with flows in excess of 10X.

The whole point to the required flow rate, is that it helps increase over all oxygen content of the water to assist with the metabolic rate and reproduction of the bacteria (this is per Mr. Hiatt not me).

That could be one reason Bill had longterm problems with his filter system.
You are correct on the RN getting all over the tank. It cover everything. It kill all the algae, but my coral is doing great. Still have some red slime in one spot where there is almost no flow. The brown Algae on the power head is dying but not as bad as before.