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Originally Posted by chwkreefer
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Originally Posted by Rikko
I love my surge device, but the bubbles *are* present and short of a few complicated tricks (there are a couple of solutions on RC now, I see), you won't get rid of them. With clever powerhead placement, however, you can make the surge actually form a wave head that sweeps across the tank in a pattern that sends the bubbles harmlessly to a side. Once the full strength of the surge overcomes the powerhead, the bubbles are gone and it's just motion flowing around the tank. I think it's probably the most natural water motion I've ever seen.
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Do you have any links for the instructions you worked off? also any pics of your setup? |
Try RC for a 'Borneman Flush Device'. It's basically a toilet flapper with a float attached. Simple, simple, simple. I took a 10 gal aquarium and threw it on top of my canopy. I siliconed in a baffle near one side so that part was always full (my mini-sump - too bad the new heater I got doesn't fit properly :/) and drilled the bottom of the larger area. The toilet flapper is a standard PVC fitting and screwed onto the bulkhead fitting on the hole. Due to the minimum height of the toilet flapper part, the water level can't empty below about 4" of water. Hey! Instant fuge! So the water level rises to the very top of the tank before the float on the flapper rises enough to open the flap, and it surges down to 4" again.
Here's a very old photo a few days after it started working. No new photos are possible so long as my camera decides it requires an entire set of batteries to take 3 photos.
