finally beginning my 480g 5'x5'x30" SPS Reef Tank

I guess they would would not be opposing but one would fired as the other is drawing in water and then the other way around.

That is why I was wondering if it would be better to but two next to one another in the overflow area.
 
Ok I have question for you. Me personaly am very very afraid of these set-ups with the plumbing under the tank. Aren't you afraid of a pump failure and them draining you tank ?
 
absolutely not. My only plumbing under the tank is a closed loop. The return plumbing is in the top right corner, I did not show it correctly in this picture but I would put two standpipes on those two 2" return near the top as syphon breakers. I'll see if I can get it drawn up properly for you. And the rest of the equipment is in a dedicated room.
 
closed loops can fail and drain a tank too. If you want to be totally safe, you bring your piping up over the top of the tank and put no holes in the box itself.
 
I bet... I already want to change my tank in a number of ways... so I guess I know what I want for my next tank... hearing rumors about waveboxes for your next tank
 
actually not sure... I pretty think it was but I need to check with the builder again. I know I had said somewhere in the thread that it wasn't but now that I think about it I believe it is.
 
thirschmann....I think we've been over this before, but is it too later, or not possible, to make the overflow box an external overflow?

As for the wavebox placement, I've never used them, but if I understand them correctly, I believe you can pretty much get away with putting them anywhere. They are going to take some tweaking on the controller no matter what because every tank is different.
 
reefwaters... I could do an external overflow but it would have to drain through two 3.25" holes rather then a linear overflow quick I don't think works as well, but I might be wrong. Hope your right about the wave boxes.. thanks for the input.


alright I'm back at it. So I've shuffled some of the panels around to try and find something else that works. In this design I have two main drains, a emergency drain, and 1 closed loop intake in the overflow. I also would have room for 2 tunze wave boxes and up to 6 streams. This design would also free up an extra corner of the tank completely and would be possible using the panels I have already ordered but in a different configuration.

The tank would have 3" teeth on the overflow and is 30" tall so the wave boxes will be in the top half of the tank. Each of the 4 side is 60" btw. The overflow would take up ~15" on each side and provide about ~24" of linear overflow depending on the room the wave boxes take up.

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Input from someone with wave box experience (looking in Jarhead's direction here) would be great. Is it ok to use the wave boxes like this and will my overflow be quite?
 
and in answer to invincible's question, yes the tank is currently planned to be rimless but its possible that I may have to go with a eurobrace because of the wave boxes.
 
wowow 24 page and still no sushi ???Mr Deltec how did you get the sponsor? Tom upgrade the pump in the wavebox and you will love the result. You cn always dial down the output
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11731352#post11731352 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by thirschmann
reefwaters... I could do an external overflow but it would have to drain through two 3.25" holes rather then a linear overflow quick I don't think works as well, but I might be wrong. Hope your right about the wave boxes.. thanks for the input.


alright I'm back at it. So I've shuffled some of the panels around to try and find something else that works. In this design I have two main drains, a emergency drain, and 1 closed loop intake in the overflow. I also would have room for 2 tunze wave boxes and up to 6 streams. This design would also free up an extra corner of the tank completely and would be possible using the panels I have already ordered but in a different configuration.

The tank would have 3" teeth on the overflow and is 30" tall so the wave boxes will be in the top half of the tank. Each of the 4 side is 60" btw. The overflow would take up ~15" on each side and provide about ~24" of linear overflow depending on the room the wave boxes take up.

t3.jpg

t2.jpg

t1.jpg


Input from someone with wave box experience (looking in Jarhead's direction here) would be great. Is it ok to use the wave boxes like this and will my overflow be quite?
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I will have the same design tank except mind a little longer and both of my dual wavebox is on each side of the overflow. If you have the 3" teeth, Just raise your water level inside the overflow box higher by having taller durso pipe then you should be fine.
 
lol... yeah it sucks for me more then you can know... would love to show you all some results by now but unfortunately that's hardly an option. Planning is some form of progress right?

What pump would you recommend? Would it be worth using the original wave box "boxes" or just build my own? And if I would build my own would one large box be better then two smaller boxes? Thank man
 
Jonathan is working on a wavebox with a 6301 that close to 10,000gph if he dial in correctly it will create a surge on top of the water and crash to the side of the tank like the real wave.
 
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