Return pump kill waves

[k9doog]

Hi, i have a 5' long tank, with the overflow and return in the midle of the tank, as a return pump i use a mag drive 18. In one of the sides i have located the Vortech, with the return pump off, the Vortech make 1" <> waves, but when i turn on the return the wave desapear, i just get a litle wave. So the question is how i sopouse to point the nozzles from the return pump to dont kill the wave?, thanks.

 

[Tagareef]

A Vortech on the other side of your tank would fix that issue!

 

[reefsafe]

or ball valve your return to cut down on the force of the output

 

[EcoTech Marine]

k9doog-

Unfortunately it's really hard to predict the interactions of multiple pumps to determine their effect on a resonant wave. No question adding another pump would help issues a lot, but you could also potentially get a better wave if you were to direct the nozzle somewhere where it didn't interfere with the output of the VorTech.

-Tim

 

[gaz]

mines doing to same thing,
i have return on the right overflow on the left and the vortech same side as the return about 5" down

did you sort yours out k9doog ?
if you have please tell me how cause its really doing my head in

cheers gaz

 

[saltkreep]

I have a snapper on an O/M with 4 return lines on a 110 gallon. my ecotech puts out a nice wave. very good motion at the surface and the bottom. the mp40-w was the best addition.