TANGBOY5000
Premium Member
This does look to be entirely too much flow for a smaller tank. I would guess that minimum you would need a 6ft tank to keep from smashing fish into the glass.
tunze wavebox in action
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Cody Ray
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I think that it looks like a great device. However, I agree that the fish look like they wont get any rest while the thing is running. On the reef, they could easly leave such an area to find calmer water. I think that you would eather have to have a massive size tank, or maybe put the thing on a cycle so that they have time to rest. Kind of like the wave pool at a water park. Maybe the key would be to have a fairly deep tank, and maybe only the upper protion of the tank would have such a large volume of water moving. Then toward the bottom you could use tunze stream pumps to mimic the lower portion of the reef. Help give the fish a place to rest. Any thoughts?
Cody Ray
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Btw, do you think that it would work with an all-glass megaflow overflow aquarium? It draws water from the top, middle, and bottom of the aquarium. I don't know if this would effect its performance. Here is the site: http://www.all-glass.com/
littleprince
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I think a slower wave current would be nice. Doesn't necessarily have to be as powerful. Very promising though.
danieljames
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787...they could rest by simply not swimming. They would move back and forth, but not into each side of the tank. Just like on a natural reef......
danieljames
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Seasickness is caused by YOU moving, not the surroundings. I hear ya though. I like the idea. Will be interesting to see how it developes.....
It uses a Stream but the secret is the physical prinicpals of resonance frequency. The box is only 2L in volume and it is all about timing. As a boy I learned that if I jumped up and down in the pool at just the right frequency I could create enormous waves- my small mass could influence a very large mass through perfect timing. If your timing is off nothing happens. The amplitude can be regulated and the waves set much smaller for effect this was set to maximum power in the video. Also, it does turn off for night mode when connected to a multicontroller or independently connected to it's own photocell. The user can control wave frequency and height and there should really be no limit to the possibilities but it will take some practice and ingenuity on the users part. The product was developed for professionals with the purpose of enabling the maintanence of many difficult species, it is very cool but it is definitely not for everybody as it is technically complex and certainly will require some patience and understanding for proper installation. There is no noticable flow or suction at the box itself, it is all a utilization of resonance. If you pull the plug the waves just slowly die down, no water sloshes out, once it is set it stays exactly as you have set it. Yes, it will make you sick if you stare at the water line, it happened to several of us and you have to focus on a reference the same as wheen you are at see to avoid this feeling. Ideally you would cover this with a canopy or melamine strip so the surfaace wave is not visible as this is not important to the effect.
I'm not sure if I like it or not. The motion is great though. My main concern is the weight of the water sloshing back and forth and the effects that may have on tank seams. I don't think aquarium manufacturers design that into their tanks. However, if a tank could be reinforced in some manner, I guess it would be OK. I still prefer varying currents via a wakemaker or a device such as the Oceans Motions valves. One thing for sure, Tunze is defintely committed to the hobby.
bluereefs
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The product was developed for professionals with the purpose of enabling the maintanence of many difficult species,
What species?
I know that my next tank will be heteractis magnifica tank and IMO wavebox is perfect solution for that aplications but I am also interested in more options.
What species?
I know that my next tank will be heteractis magnifica tank and IMO wavebox is perfect solution for that aplications but I am also interested in more options.
it may also be perfect to turn it on once twice a week to flush the reef when run with other sources streams ocean motion etc.
It would allow dirt to be pulled into the water coloum and then flushed by the intank currents,
If you look at the movement of the fish on its own its not going to move all the dirt up into the water. Looking at the video yes you have a wave in the tank but the water only moves a set distance left and right. Its in effect a standing wave being setup, as such with just the wavebox i would expect dirt crud to also collect in relation to the standing wave so its not the complete solution.
Now what would be ideal would be:
the possibility to switch the unit from wave mode to standard stream functionality, get a controler to run it in wave mode for a day and then as a power head pulsed every 30 seconds etc best of both worlds,:smokin:
But its still a fascinating product
It would allow dirt to be pulled into the water coloum and then flushed by the intank currents,
If you look at the movement of the fish on its own its not going to move all the dirt up into the water. Looking at the video yes you have a wave in the tank but the water only moves a set distance left and right. Its in effect a standing wave being setup, as such with just the wavebox i would expect dirt crud to also collect in relation to the standing wave so its not the complete solution.
Now what would be ideal would be:
the possibility to switch the unit from wave mode to standard stream functionality, get a controler to run it in wave mode for a day and then as a power head pulsed every 30 seconds etc best of both worlds,:smokin:
But its still a fascinating product
TANGBOY5000
Premium Member
This thing is cool. Putting a strip around the top of the tank is probably the easiest solution, if the wave bothers you. I would think that it would definitly have to be put on a timer that might cause alot of fish stress if it was on all the time. I think it's awesome, but I'll stick with my Wave2K for now.
TANGBOY5000
Premium Member
I would think it wouldn't matter how deep the tank was. It would only be a matter of time before the entire tank was rockin' and rolling.
