My next possible tank set up.

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[Yellotang]

Here is one possible solution to my next tank.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=645768&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

This is the begining of something that I had trying to figure out for a long time. Improved water movement.

[angelscrx]

Way too deep for me!  I can't even imagine that much water volume in 20 seconds. :shock:

[Yellotang]

I am getting excited thinking that this may be possible.

[Bait]

Y-Tang,

I read the entire post....some good ideas but they all involve pumps/machines moving water in a confined (small) space.

I still remember your 'dump/flush' design on your old tank....a thing of beauty, simple, very effective.

Here's the design I like:

1 large show tank
2 smaller (half size of show tank) tanks stationed at each end (hiddened from view).

Each smaller tank (doesn't have to be a tank....can be a clean container) is sitting on a lift (hydralic??) and attached via a flexible hose to the main show tank.

The containers are programmed to rise and fall in opposing cycles....draining and filling (flowing thru the main tank) according to how fast the lifts function and how much water is intially in the two smaller tanks.

As long as the connections are flexible and long enough no force will be excerted on the walls of the main tank from the lifts of the smaller containers.

I'm not sure how engery efficient lifting via this method is (lifts may be costly) but I like the purity of the design.

Thoughts?

Bait.

[angelscrx]

Things to consider:

Noise
Ambient temp
Energy consumption
Spill over
Tank inhabitant disturbance (frag getting thrown around if not glued properly)
Maintenance of the hydraulic system
etc, etc, etc ...

[Bait]

My objective with this design is to mimic nature (free flow).  The noise from flowing water (high volume) is unadvoidable.

I'm not sure how the energy consumption compares.

There is no spill over....unless something breaks ....like any system.

The whole point of the high flow is tank disturbance.  Gotta use some super, super glue???

An electrical lift my work better than a pure hydraulic??

[Rico]

Tunze has a new product, the WaveBox  that you might want to review.  It is a simple box you put in the tank.  You can control the frequency and height of the waves.

Tunze Site
http://www.tunze.com/149.html?&L=1&C=US&user_tunzeprod_pi1[predid]=-infoxunter016

Video of the unit in action.
http://www.3reef.com/forums/showthread.php?p=316816#post316816

Rick

[angelscrx]

Wow now that is some serious water movement.  That poor clown can get across the tank!  The corals seem happy though.