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01-16-2009, 07:09 PM
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I think I am starting to wonder though if I want a big black box in my tank  In most tanks you can hide them quite easily in a back corner. But my tank does not have a back corner. Its viewable from actually all 4 sides. The side I say is against a wall is actually not against a wall but faces a little alcove in the wall where my ATO and some equipment is. Even if I re-aquascaped and moved the big cap or sold it, I can't put the wavebox on that end of the tank because it will interfere with my overflow. Hard to explain but I have looked into it and it will not work. So...I have to keep most of the flow coming from the one side of the tank which mean powerheads kind of suck. I don't want continuous flow. The best reef tanks you see around have much more random and back and forth flow, which you really only get from a wavebox or closed loop with some kind of wavemaker. Or I guess controllable powerheads. I am just not convinced that any powerhead is going to give me the flow I want down the entire tank. 
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01-16-2009, 07:23 PM
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It would have to go where the tank sticks out into the living room and that side of the tank has no LR really or anything. Its a open sandy area. It would be quite noticeable  I thought that since I have powerheads anyways, maybe it wouldn't be a big deal but I measured and its big for that space. At least with the powerheads, they can stay just closer to the surface and are not as noticeable. The tank is quite shallow, so the wave box will look even bigger. The regular one will look massive in that side of the tank. I just think it maybe defeats the purpose of having a peninsula tank with a box on the end. I think in the end, a closed loop would have been the way to go. The tank is actually drilled for one and the intake is just capped but it would be a big deal I think to plumb it with the tank already full  Too risky for me anyways since the intake is on the bottom of the tank.
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01-16-2009, 07:31 PM
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I hate it when you're faced with the possibility of a tank being emptied, and consequently, a tank redo that always seems to spring from it.
It sounds like you really want to do the closed loop... sux that it might not be the most practical though.
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01-16-2009, 07:53 PM
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which is not an option. The closed loop would have been probably the cheapest way to go too! Maybe for now I will just find a cheaper solution to adding more flow until I figure things out. I don't really want to spend $600-700 plus on a wavebox or two and then find out I hate how they look. I would go with two Vortechs but man...$1000 plus taxes? I don't think its worth that. I do need to up the flow in the tank somehow until I figure out what to do.
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01-16-2009, 07:58 PM
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you could construct some boxes out of some cheap, water resistant material to tunze spec and just see if it doesn't drive you crazy before you go buy the real thing....
maybe worth the little hassle to be certain. I just meant the most practical for the flow you're looking for, not to actually do.
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01-16-2009, 08:09 PM
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My fiance has already said she thinks it will "kill the look of the tank" and that I better not spend $600 on something that looks so bad  Being in the MIDDLE of the room, the tank is a center piece and need to look nice.Probably should walk away from the idea at this point 
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01-16-2009, 08:26 PM
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just my 2 cents...
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01-16-2009, 08:42 PM
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I also just realized that since it is a closed loop, I could actually plumb the whole thing and then just uncap the intake and allow water to drain...there is nowhere for the water to go since its a closed loop
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