Will a wave box work for me?

[uztaryn]

I have a ~500gallon mixed reef/fish tank. It is 90" long and 30" tall and is 44" wide. The tank is a penensula tank and is viewable on 3 sides. The overflow is in the back of the tank (against the wall) but only takes up about 3/4 of the 44" against the wall.

I currently have an OM4way run by a dart drilled into the top of the tank and a Sequence hammerhead running 2 returns. I also have 2 Hydor 4's and a tunze 6025 pushing some flow in the tank. I would like to scrap the 2 hydor's and the 6025 and replace them with a wave box.

It would need to push down the 90" of the tank and could be placed at any depth in the back corner beside the overflow.

1) Do I need an extension box?
2) If so can the extension be placed above or beneath the main wavebox?
3) If I need an extension and it cannot be placed above or beneath I have nowhere else to put it. So now what do I do?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[rvitko]

The tank is very wide so the waveboxes would be best off centered, you will need an extension, you could run one in each corner as well.

The wavebox and extension must be set to the same height about 3/4" of the boxes must be above the water line so it can breathe in air.

 

[lorinton]

You may have some issues with the overflow on the end of the tank. The wave action could result in a period where water stops flowing into the overflow followed by a period where water rushes in.

My overflow is about 3/4 of the way down the tank. I had to tune it so it never completely empties of water but doesn't fill all the way either. Its very noisy if it empties and less effective if it fills up.