More Flow ?s

[Gator]

i would also purchase the tunzee

[Tim Marvin]

What do you have to lose? I'll pay you full price for it if you don't like it after a trial run. They should run about $125-$130 online.

[Tim Marvin]

Aquatek has them also. You won't be able to keep sand on the bottom though in a 45. You will need rubble or bare bottom.

[MikeDeL]

What about Crushed coral on top of the sand? Will that keep the sand settled down?

[Tim Marvin]

hmmmmm, I doubt it. Drop by and look at mine in the 90 corner, or the 80, they move some water.

[captexas]

Yeah, definately would need to be behind some rocks or have some other way to lessen the force of the flow from the Tunze in that small of a tank. I tried one in my 75 and it created a huge sandstorm! The other bad thing about the Tunze is that without a controller on it, you are getting the same flow pattern all the time in the tank. It helps to have a somewhat more random flow and/or flow from different directions. While I hate having powerheads in my tank, the two I have on a Wavemaster Pro like Josh mentioned make a big difference on my tank. I'm running a Ampmaster 2100 main return pump and a Mag12 on a closed loop and I had stagnate areas before I added the Wavemaster and MJ1200's.

[MikeDeL]

Wonder if instead of moving the sand I have now into the 45 and adding more sand, I could just move the sand over then add about 30 lbs of CC on top of it. That would give me about a 3/4" sand bed topped off with a few inches of CC. Then with all the rock sitting on top of it. I think that sound like it might be ok. I would hate to have to give up the sand it came from a good source, and would help seed all the new stuff.

Now should I place this thing in the back corner, and run it diaginal to the opposite front corner, or have it run front to back in the center?

[MikeDeL]

In my tank now I have a mixed substrate, all of the sand has settled to the bottom with all the larger chunks on top. I think I will stick with the sand and CC on top, then just grow zoos and such on top. Have me a nice Zoanthid lawn.