flow

[kimberfish]

My 265 g tank is 7' long and I have a dead spot front center of the tank. I get diatome that settle there and nowhere else. I have a spraybar and 4 Koralis 4's. I need something that will create more flow in that area. If I aim the Koralia down there at all it blows all the sand away.
I've seen the waveysea and other things mounted in the front center of a few tanks but really don't want to front mount anything.
Any ideas on how to get flow in this area? Maybe I could find something that would put out a straight stream at lease 4' long and end mount it?????

Here's a shot of how my rock work looks in that area. I have since moved that back right Koralia down about 1 foot and it has helped a bit

[CSeaSee]

You could try one of the new Ecotech vortech drives- or a big Tunze pump, or a closed loop with a lot of loc-line...

[BinaryReefer]

You can mod the koralia's with a maxi-jet 1200 magnet and an octura 1440 impeller. They are seeing easily twice the original output of the koralia. It also only pulls 15 watts with the mod, 5 less than a modded MJ.

But if you have money the vortech is where it is at.

[Reefland]

I just wanted to say that your tank looks great!

[Samper]

I agree. Amazing looking system. Could you tell us a little more about it?

[kimberfish]

thank you - it's definately a work in progress!! I upgraded from a 55g to this 265g 7' long tank. I am currently running 1 400 14K MH and 2 250 12K MH's along witn 4 48" actinic blue lights, and 4 lunar lights. I have a 1 hp chiller, 4 koralia 4's and a spraybar(chiller return). I have a custon built sump, skimmer compartment, and fuge. Total volume is around 320 g. I run 1 phosban reactor. My main pump is a dolphin 3600 that feeds my chiller as well as main return. I do biweekly 80g water changes and dose 2 part daily. I"m currently using Kent salt.

Inhabitants are:
LN hawkfish
foxface
naso tang
yellow tang
sailfin tang
hippo tang
blue throat trigger
2 fire fish
1 6line wrasse
magestic angel
3 damsels I can't catch
maroon strip clown hosting in my RBTA
2 large green chromis
plate coral
sun polyps
3 types gorgonia
8 sps frags
large toadstool
frogspawn
hammer coral
2 brains
featherduster
and a few other things I"m sure I will think of as soon as I hit the post button!!!

[BinaryReefer]

Milk jug for the collection cup overflow?

If so, love it.

[kimberfish]

hey whatever works right??!!

Actually I got rid of that skimmer about 2 weeks ago now I"m running an octopus 200 on it and it is awesome, but the jug is gone I"m not running an overflow on the new skimmer

[BinaryReefer]

Nice!

I can't wait to get my xtreme 160.

[kimberfish]

Man mine is pulling black skim not even green and I"m emptying the cup 1-2 times a week.. I love that skimmer

[rjs5134]

WOW, you've made me feel soooo inadequate. Your tank looks AWESOME. My little 65 gallon is no longer sufficient. To hell with the master bedroom suite addition, I'm spending this years bonus on a big tank like that.

[Reefland]

WOW, you've made me feel soooo inadequate. Your tank looks AWESOME. My little 65 gallon is no longer sufficient. To hell with the master bedroom suite addition, I'm spending this years bonus on a big tank like that.

Good luck selling that idea to your spouse.