My wacky new circulation arrangement

[Anonymous]

I almost didn't post these after looking at Len's thread! My work is a bit ghetto in comparison.

What I have going on here is an Oceans Motions 4-way that alternates flow between 5 nozzles that point clockwise with 5 that point counterclockwise. The pump is a Sequence Hammerhead, which really gets things moving in this tank. Its a 150 (60x24x24). The return from the basement will go through the 2 penductors shown on the bottom of the tank. Filling with RO now. Sorry for the poor photo quality!

 

[Anonymous]

Cool, How often will it switch back and forth?

 

[Anonymous]

It goes a bit faster then once per minute, approx.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks good Dan.

I didn't know you were planning a new tank.

Still got the 150G, right?

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing you are going bare bottom with those outputs on the bottom... eh?

 

[Anonymous]

Yep, BB all the way.

Louey- my current tak is a 120. What you are looking at is the former vivarium, which will be the new reef. On the 120 stand will go a 48x24x48 front opening vivarium, that I might build out of acrylic.

 

[fishgills]

Very cool.
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[Anonymous]

Awesome tank. Good Luck.

 

[Anonymous]

Dan

I don't see it in the pic, but the penductors come over the back and have a suction break, right?

 

[Anonymous]

Dan

I don't see it in the pic, but the penductors come over the back and have a suction break, right?

the penductors are in the first picture, at the bottom, they're blue.

 

[Anonymous]

Dan

I don't see it in the pic, but the penductors come over the back and have a suction break, right?

the penductors are in the first picture, at the bottom, they're blue.

I got that part. With out a suction brake it will drain his tank when he looses power. I'm sure he has one, but I just do not see it.

 

[ChrisRD]

Looks good Dan!

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks!

Yep, suction break is there. If you look at the detail picture there actually is a little nylon 90 degree fixture I stuck in there because I was afraid I made the hole a bit too high and I'd have water arcing out of there, and also so nothing flat could get stuck against it blocking the flow. Then I drilled another one slightly lower.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I finally swapped tanks last week!

I cut the lines to the 120, glued them into the 150, let it dry for a bit, and crossed my fingers... fired up the pump and it all worked like a charm. One bulkhead under the tank that needed a bit of tightening.

Then I started moving the coral. It took the entire day! I expected to use a bit more rock, and had bartered for some with local reefers, but ended up needing less. It's pretty tough getting all those intertwined corals into another tank. What with my rough handling and occasionally contacting other corals they were sliming like crazy. The whole house smelled like raw oysters, or something.

Check out this hunk of green monti:

It went in the rock curing vat. 8O After chopping off the mille, of course.

My landscaping ideas went pretty much by the wayside, as I couldn't bear to separate some of the corals from the rocks they were so nicely encrusted on. It looks kinda like a pile of rocks, but its growing on me a bit and I may not adjust it as drastically as I thought I would.

I saved the best part for last: I woke at 6:20 the next morning to the sound of the siphon break slurping... power outage! 8O 8O 8O

It lasted for over 8 stinking hours. Good thing I have my trusty little generator.