The next mod for you junkies out there

[Covey]

How about turning some of those Maxi-Mods into waveboxes

The thread
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1007362&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

The videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwIF1Mi-KyA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dCfdVDEWVak

 

[waverz]

i saw that, i dont see how a modded mj can be turned off/on that much realiably.....

 

[leeweber85]

I can't figure out how it works, but I love the way the corals flow with it. Any chance this could be done external?

 

[Covey]

A water tight box with the inlet drilled thru the tank wall in could be setup external. I've seen custom high end stuff with Tunze wave boxes set up that way.

I love the movement too.

 

[glaspie69]

I'm just wondering if you couldn't use a regular maxi-jet, in a smaller tank as long as it was pushing a good amount of water I don't see why it would make much of a difference. I have some scrap acrylic laying around maybe I'll make one to see how it works, finding a good timer that works, thats the hard part.

 

[matt the fiddler]

covey, where did you see the external boxes?

 

[waverz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8891563#post8891563 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by glaspie69
I'm just wondering if you couldn't use a regular maxi-jet, in a smaller tank as long as it was pushing a good amount of water I don't see why it would make much of a difference. I have some scrap acrylic laying around maybe I'll make one to see how it works, finding a good timer that works, thats the hard part.

These look like they would be perfect.... 0-210 second intervals.
http://www.exoticfish.com/details.cfm?cat=0|1978|1963|1908|0&id=42463&

 

[matt the fiddler]

since you can tweak off an on time, that is nice.... you can have slightly longer on than off, to make up for the "start up"

i wonder how hard it is to tweak that in tenths of seconds.... one second resolution is not enough for this use..

 

[Covey]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8891703#post8891703 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by matt the fiddler
covey, where did you see the external boxes?

I think it was Aquariums Obessed and now that I tink of it it was a normal tank with the overflow,wavebox, and various powercords hidden behind a false black glass wall. Really slick.