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Originally Posted by
spanko http:///t/376802/415-gallon-plywood-tank-build/1460#post_3458237
Can't tell from the last pic but was it you that said you wanted the elbow strainers up against the bottom of the overflow box?
Everything looks great. Is your significant other involved at all, and I do mean other than complaining about the money you are spending?
Is the top where the lights will go open on the top for heat dissipation, or are the side vents?
Why would you put in the MP60's with all of the closed loop you have including the OM's?
I love the Euro bracing. Are you going to put some netting on top to keep Joe's royal Gramma from jumping out?
Everything looks great, very clean, can't wait to see some salt spray all over the place.
You have certainly put in a lot of thought and sweat equity here. Well done.
As far as flow the MP60's and OM CL's......They each offer something unique.......A big limiting factor I feel with the MP60's is you can't direct them....with the OM's I can direct the flow where I want or need......I spent a lot of time discussing water flow and movement with people, and I feel and so do others that a lot of us waste are effort and energy when it comes to returning water or moving water within our DT......
I am going to try to replicate the Gyre type of water movement within the tank......The MP60's were more an after thought......The original plan was to drill the tank in the bottom and install dual 4Way OM within the rock work.....Something I really wasn't looking forward to doing, and the MP60's filled that void at this point of the game.....Time will tell though once the rock work begins. One thing I might try through conversations with Paul from OM is plumbing a smaller pump into the CL system and during lights out the smaller pump would kick on taking the Reeflo pump off line, and continue the flow, but not to the extreme of the Reeflo pump.....Still working on ideas there though.....
Most of us just dump water back into the display tank......Where in affect we should be directing our flow with specific reasoning, and that reasoning how I plumbed and drilled my tank, is that the returns on the left side of the tank are being fired downward and trying to direct the flow across the bottom.....In essensce the MP60's are furthering the push across bottom of the tank towards the other end of the tank, and in return the force of the water being pushed across will force the water back upward towards the top of the tank where I have another set of returns firing back across the water surface. This in affect will/should keep "crap" suspended long enough in the water column to be directed back towards the water surface and the returns firing back towards the overflow box should in theory direct "crap" towards and into the overflow box where it can be removed from the DT.......
Not planning on this time of using any type of netting over the tank......If I use anything it would be a polycarb top for the tank.....No netting.....Some might argue gaseous exchange at the water surface, but the sump is wide open for gas exchange....Polycarb won't absorb water at the same rate as acrylic....so a better choice if I opt that way.......
Salt spray.......Naaaaaa........The only place I see salt spray is from my siphon break holes I drilled in 2 of the returns......Upon firing the return pump I get a odd spray for a second, but that's it........I might get a tad from the fuge flowing back into the return section, but only time will tell......
Thank you sir!!!!!!
