Hypothetical reef tank

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by mr_alberta

Gyre tanks...well, while the concept is interesting, they look kind of....gross to me Not my cup of tea.

Probably better suited to a backroom frag growout, true. I *did* say my suggestion was a bit "out there." Having said though I think the less aesthetic aspects are merely a design challenge that should set the creativity neurons firing. I'm hoping to do a show level gyre tank for gorgonians at some point, but, ah well, since I'm basically a one-armed man for the foreseeable future it ain't happenin' anytime soon.

Catherine, the Calfo manifold is probably the way to go. Unfortunately, they're kind of ugly too, unless you have a canopy to hide the piping. The idea is that you have a pipe with various output points that you can hang locline (or whatever) from and thus tweak your flow patterns without bulky pumps in the viewable areas of the tank. I imagine a google search should yield some good examples of setups but I can't think of any offhand.