Introduce myself & some pictures!

[Scythanith]

The overflow isn't going to be exactly as shown, I'm going with something a little smaller and likely on the non-visible side.

The Zoa's are 5 colour rainbows, my colony took a turn for the worse after our move but I still have 5 polyps holding in there!

[sphelps]

Hey Scott, glad to see you lowered your height from your original 30", I see you may have reduced it twice? picture shows 24" but you also stated 22".

For your overflow I have a suggestion. Don't go with an end to end design. Stick with something smaller like 12-18". You can notch the glass and go with an external overflow. From my experience the larger end to end overflows do not skim the surface as well. If you use a smaller one you'll be creating a higher velocity flow from the tank into the overflow which will increase surface tension and actually skim the surface water better. With the end to end you're not going to get a good velocity nor surface tension and as a result will not skim the surface as well. Think of it like a vacuum cleaner, with a huge nozzle it's difficult to suck stuff up, but with a small nozzle it's much more effective.

[wickedfrags]

Nice stuff Scott. Good to see you hear on Canreef. Dave

[Scythanith]

Originally Posted by wickedfrags.com

Nice stuff Scott. Good to see you hear on Canreef. Dave

Thanks Dave, I have my eye on a couple of your goodies on the site. Might have to get another order together in a month or so.

[Scythanith]

I think 22" will be water level height, 24" will be the glass top.... to be honest I haven't quite decided. I would like to be able to reach the bottom in most areas of the tank but the 4 foot front to back dimension makes that difficult.

The overflow will be two smaller overflows at either side of the back pane most likely to surface skim from either side of the tank. And yes, they will be small to promote water movement.

There will be two or three returns with most of the in-tank circulation being taken care of by vortechs.

Haven't figured it all out quite yet!

Originally Posted by sphelps

Hey Scott, glad to see you lowered your height from your original 30", I see you may have reduced it twice? picture shows 24" but you also stated 22".

For your overflow I have a suggestion. Don't go with an end to end design. Stick with something smaller like 12-18". You can notch the glass and go with an external overflow. From my experience the larger end to end overflows do not skim the surface as well. If you use a smaller one you'll be creating a higher velocity flow from the tank into the overflow which will increase surface tension and actually skim the surface water better. With the end to end you're not going to get a good velocity nor surface tension and as a result will not skim the surface as well. Think of it like a vacuum cleaner, with a huge nozzle it's difficult to suck stuff up, but with a small nozzle it's much more effective.

[superduperwesman]

Scott buddy good to see you. I miss your beautiful face. What ever your new tank's final dimensions are I'm sure it'll be nice. Guy has got taste and he's also got 3/4 of a zoo in his place. What's that thing that was in the telus commercials, I think it can change color and has a huge tounge?

[Delphinus]

Those are some sweet dimensions for a tank..

[dsaundry]

Nice pic's...Welcome aboard!