Gyre Nano

[kwirky]

so you're jake adams? cool I was trying to figure out how to get ahold of you through e-mail or something. Was sifting through the advancedaquarist website looking for contact information. That article is exactly the one that made me want to build a gyre tank

Yeah, after building it, it's totaly a beneficial design of an aquarium for waterflow. I liked the idea of the horizontal plate rather than the verticle plate because it would require less floor space. I'm quite curious about what you used as a neutrally bouyant material?

And have you ever had problems with the seio on the 5 minute timer? Was trying to find info on what happens to them when they're on wavemakers. Most people say they end up dieing in about a year, or only start up some of the cycles after about 2 months.

I really like the term "cm/second" rather than "gallons/hour", because that's a much more practical way to provide a quantitative requirement for flow, considering so many people's flow patterns are different in their own tanks. I think it would be a good way to describe desired water flow to somone new to the hobby, and doesn't know how to point their powerheads and such.