Closed loop

[Silverfish]

Since I haven't bought anything expensive for my tank lately, the urge has hit, must..spend..money.

Not really, but I do like the 1" Seaswirls and I think one would be a great addition to my 55g.

I could get rid of two Maxijets in the process, and have good current flow still, but that has got me thinking of how to get rid of the other two Maxijets?

The thought I had was, running one or two mag 2 pumps plumbed as a closed loop hanging off the back of the tank. Then run the mags off of my Wavemaster Pro to get the random wave action, and at the same time have less clutter in the tank.

I recently was reading of someone doing this somewhere online (can't remember where) and it seems like it could work.

The things that could be lame are the vibrations from the trusty old mag pumps driving ya nuts, and also possible leakage from the mags o ring down the road.

Could you run both mag's from the same inlet tube tee'd off to service both pumps? Or would it be a bit exciting if one was running, pulling water through the other pump, then the other pump comes on... I don't think it would harm either of them, but it could make bubbles and/or noise.

What do ya think?