New custom Anemoe Aquaria

[karlhay]

Hello
I`m in the process of designing a new aquaria for keeping Anemone, Does any one have any ideas on how to do the water flow, I will have a sump, tank is 60 Gallons, Skimmer Deltec ap 701
so any thing what would you do closed loops, streams I not sure drawings, pictures as much feed back as poss, I will be keeping a carpet or ritari please help

cheers
karl

 

[Ayanami]

what are the tank demensions? is it RR?

Jess

 

[karlhay]

900mm x 600mm x 500mm 60 uk gallons

 

[karlhay]

Anybody

 

[GSMguy]

my suggestion would be two tunze nano stream 6055 on a multicontroller

 

[Ayanami]

If you never want to worry about an anemone walking around into a power head go with a CL and put a foam filter over the intake, maybe 2 outlets along the back wall would be nice. If you do a ritteri you could just make the LR a center island and make the flow on both sides of the ritteri. I had a cube tank I build just for a ritteri and that is what I did for flow. Never moved because it was high up and had flow all around it. Hope this helps...

Jess

 

[karlhay]

Yeah sounds great using streams but i thought of that but it a bit like sticking a food blender in the aquarium.
Closed loops sound just like the thing I would go with, Thought about useing a Deltec hlp 4040 intervall pump what do you think, were abouts would you place intakes and returns for closed loops and sump

 

[karlhay]

Deletc hlp is about 930 u.k gallons on full chat, with the ehiem return pump for sump which is about 530 u.k gallons

 

[Ayanami]

Where is your overflow is it center or on the side?

Jess

 

[karlhay]

Good point what would you do, I thought the side as if it was the middle it would encourage anemone to move, also i Could swap the Eheim for its bigger brother rated at 750 gph, the skimmer will be gravity feed, Have you a copy of THE REEF AQUARIUM volume 1 if so page 231 top drawing, Or could change to a cube
please give me yout thoughts Ayanami

Thank you

 

[Ayanami]

let me go tak a pic of a tank I am about to fill up it has nice placement for closed loop

Jess

 

[karlhay]

Great, would you use a intervall pump or a normal eheim given the choice

 

[Ayanami]

I really like Iwaki pumps... ok This is a tank kinda like the one i am describing it's 36x24x24h

Pic of the 2 returns, These are just sump returns but, it is perfect placement for 2 CL returns if you do a ritteri in the middle and then just have a CL inlet somewhere halfway down in the tank.

Jess

 

[karlhay]

Very nice what are your pumps rated at

 

[Ayanami]

In the past I've used Iwaki MD40RLXT's @1,400gph. I'm not filling up that tank for another month or so, when I do though It's gonna be a low flow tank. I'm in the middle of moving a 120g tank over to my new place atm so no time to mess with my new tank.

Jess

 

[OrionN]

What kind of carpet?
H. magnifica have specific requirement that is very different from S. haddoni carpet. You got to decide what kind of anemone first. The research on it requirement, then you know what to build.
Haddoni carpet require a sand bed, not to demanding on flow, and need high light.
Ritteri or H. magnifica require very high alternating flow, very high light and need to be on the rock. No sand bed needed. As you can see, there is no one system that is ideal for both.

 

[karlhay]

Good luck with the move, any other ideas post them up, like what light will you use, skimmer, etc, would like to keep in touch I`ll forward my email if you wish

 

[karlhay]

Hi Orion n
Ritteri, Pretty o k with each Anemone`s requirements but your right i should have mentioned it

 

[zoomfish1]

Will you be able to use existing water and live rock or will it be a new set up and have to mature for those 6-8 months?

Would be nice if you could use existing stuff and not have to wait.

 

[karlhay]

All mature, thankfully