HYDRO Rotating Water Deflector

I had one for a little while. It does move the water but unless you can hide it, it will become an eye-sore. In-fact I think I still have it out the garage somewhere.
 
was it effective if you could hide it? also does anyone know of something that is cheap and effective to make waves in a 29 gallon tank without it being an eye sore. I have a 29 with a sump. The spill over box has only ine u tube. I was thinking about using the SCWD but I was told that I couldn't use that unless I had 2 u returns. Help me if you can. Thanks.

Nick
 
I would think you could do either one. Though maybe the Hydro rotating attatchment would be the way to go...cheap and only needs a power head. I use a SCWD on my closed loop and it really kills the flow from my pump. So to make it work well you may need to get a bigger return pump...? You don't need two return lines be cause the SCWD is designed to split the one return into two.

HTH.
 
I really liked mine. (Only reason no longer use it is put a closed loop in the new tank, so no power heads to put it on). Our anemone really responded to it, bubbled its tips a lot.
 
Clown-n-around, did you mean you liked the SCWD or the HYDRO Rotating Water Deflector? And if it was the HYDRO Rotating Water Deflector, was it an eye-sore on your tank or did you find a way to hide it?
 
I like my Hydro deflector.....sure it's bigger than just a powerhead, but very simple to use and I really like the moving current it produces.....where mine is in the upper front corner of the tank, I don't find it an eye-sore really at all...JMO :cool:
 
I like mine as well. It creates irregular currents when spinning across the path of my other powerhead. As for hiding it I just set the powerhead as high in the tank as possible. It is still visible but not as bad as being in the center somewhere. HTH
 
Csubseball how much would you want for that water deflector you have sitting around and do you only have one? if you have 2 then how much would you want?
 
i hate the hydors, they cut the flow so dramatically that its basically pointless in my opinion, just buy a good sized seio pump or do the maxijet mod
 
The maxijet mod is to turn a maxijet into a tunze stream and hook it up to a wavemaker(either DIY or manufactured)...both can be done/made for cheap. Maxi i think runs you about $10-20 if you have the pump already, and the wavemaker mod only costs like $7 including timer.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7139149#post7139149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedHonda69
Clown-n-around, did you mean you liked the SCWD or the HYDRO Rotating Water Deflector? And if it was the HYDRO Rotating Water Deflector, was it an eye-sore on your tank or did you find a way to hide it?
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I liked the Hydor water deflector. Also, the flow seemed to be just as strong as without it. As for looks, it is big, and makes the pump rather long. But it made my corals and anemone a lot happier so it was worth it. I figured if the anemone was looking spectacular, it people would look at that instead of the pump :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7145846#post7145846 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedHonda69
anyone have pics?
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Will take a little bit of work, but the results are great. Probably not to much of a difference between this and the HYDRO other than size.
 
hi tgillespie sorry I've been out of town I will call you when I get back in my cell phone is dead forgot to bring my charger. i've been using my friends computer. I should be back on tue and i'll give you a call.
do you have the HYDRO's in your tank?
 
I dont. I only have a 16 gallon bow, so a HYDRO or a Maxijet mod would be a little overkill. I have seen the Maxijet mod in action and must say its quite the little contraption. Nice wave affect.
 
You can see 2 of them in a 20G tank here
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They'll eventually get covered w/ coralline and you get use to it I guess, I did...:p
 
I love the Hydors. Contrary to what some are saying, I didn't notice much of a drop in water flow, it diffuses the flow through a larger output, which in my opinion is a bonus, not a detriment. Corals don't like that concentrated blast.

I didn't think they were that hard to hide either, they have a much smaller footprint than most of the other rotator/wavemaking devices. I've also seen them mounted on the flex returns from the filter, kind of a poor mans sea swirls.
 
i had two of the hydor flo's on my 20L reef and i like them. the corals and anemone did too. i had mine attached to pvc pipe coming up from my sump. they were no very invasive at all. i stuck them way in the back corners. i had a scwd and hated it. it leaked from the start. i tried to get the company to replace it but they wouldnt. he laughed and said it is impossible for it to leak and pretty much hung up on me. needless to say i dont like that company. the leak was on the seam, so it wasnt too difficult for me to melt the seam back together with a soldering iron. it works, but cuts the flow dramatically. you have to run double the flow you should to get the flow you are looking for.
i am actually running 4 flo's in my 37g discus tank right now. 2 on the bottom and 2 at the top outer edges of the tank. i have an undergravel jet system the lower ones run off of. the plants and logs hide the flos pretty well. the upper ones are shaded by my horizontile overflow and they are hard to see also. i really like the flos a lot. get them online and save yourself the dough. exotic aquatics in boulder carries them for $20(rip off) and denizons in f.c have them for $26 (hard core rip off). those are the only places i know of to get them in town.
 
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