Successful Wavebox mount on 1" acrylic with magnet holder

[vapormd]

When I was looking into getting a wavebox, I was worried about mounting options on my 1" thick acrylic tank with eurobracing, since the strongest magnet holders were only rated to 3/4", and I couldn't find many success storied on using the magnet holders on 1" thick tanks in searching RC. I also didn't want to drill the 1"thick eurobracing to mount the rails, although I was prepared to do so if the magnets didn't work out.

I'm now successfully using the wavebox with the 6200.50 magnet holders on my tank. There's no movement or shifting of the wavebox, although I think it helps that the top of the wavebox is up against the eurobracing, and the side of the wavebox is up against one of the walls of the tank.

I'm able to achieve a 1.25" single wave on my 66" long tank. In addition, my tank is 30" wide (front to back), and I have the wavebox mounted in the front corner of the tank, so I'm having success even though the wavebox is more than the recommended 12" from center of the side wall. I have three 6100 streams in my tank as well, with those on, the wave drops to about 1.1" in height.

Hope someone else finds this info useful!

 

[reef_doug]

I'm hoping your are right that the 6200.50 magnetic holders will hold 1". I'm planning to mount a wavebox on 3/4" acrylic + 1/4" blackout end panel to total 1". My plan "B" was to cut out the holes in the 1/4" panel for the magnetic mounts.

How did you mount your 6100's?
I'm planning to purchase the deco rocks.

It would be nice if/when Tunze has a stronger magnet than 6200.50.
Perhaps a 6300.50 down the road to go with their new 6300's would only make sense since larger tanks are 1" - 1-1/4".

 

[vapormd]

I actually had the wavebox mounted at first on the 1" acrylic + 1/8th" blackout panel, and while it held fine (had it mounted for a day), I figure I better not push my luck and cutout the areas for the magnets on the blackout panel so that they're holding only thru 1" acrylic.

As for the 6100's, I have them mounted two ways:

(1) The best and cleanest way - I glued the rails to the tank with Weldon-16. I think the rails are ABS, so I wasn't sure how great the bond would be, but after a day I couldn't pull the rails off the tank wall, and two year later, the rails are still firmly attached. Of couse, you can only do this before the tank is filled, and it does commit you once you glue the rail in place

(2) I also have one stream mounted with the wavy seas tunze holder. The holder itself will push fit into a 1" pipe fitting (unthreaded), so I mounted that into a 1" bulkhead which I mounted into an unsued bulkhead hole in my eurobracing.

I don't know about the the deco rocks - they look nice but I have to pull out my Tunze every 4 months to clean them, so that would be much more difficult with rocks (I would think, again, I don't have the rocks)

Just as a side note, I personally would not use the magnet holders to mount streams on our 1" tanks, esp if you're going to angle the streams, as I'm pretty sure it could slip over time. With the wavebox, the force of the stream is directly perpendicular to the tank, so the only slippage to worry about is from the vertical forces of the waves - in actuality, even with a 1.25" wave, the box didn't move with the magnet holders in my tank.

Roger did say a stronger magnet was in the works, but didn't know when they were going to be produced/released