So I recently watched a video on youtube of a guy's wavebox made with a DC controlled tunze pump that made really great waves. Now, I understand the dynamics of having a long, relatively shallow tank for creating waves. But I have an 8 1/2" (deep) X 12 1/2" (wide) X 8" (tall) 3 gallon nano. I know it isn't a great candidate for actual waves, but I noticed while I was cleaning food out of my pipette that if I started pumping the pipette at the right frequency, I could in fact make "wavelettes". I noticed the few corals I have all over the tank swaying with the water.
So, now I'm trying to figure out what I can build to create a water movement of about 1 ounce or so in a specific direction. I've been thinking of some kind of variable speed motor controlled piston the pumps up and down inside a tube with an inlet/outlet tube toward the bottom. This would make a similar, but greatly scaled down, version of a tunze wavebox.
Any thought anyone has on this would be greatly appreciate it.
Night,
Jon
So, now I'm trying to figure out what I can build to create a water movement of about 1 ounce or so in a specific direction. I've been thinking of some kind of variable speed motor controlled piston the pumps up and down inside a tube with an inlet/outlet tube toward the bottom. This would make a similar, but greatly scaled down, version of a tunze wavebox.
Any thought anyone has on this would be greatly appreciate it.
Night,
Jon
