Hello,
I am new to posting on the site but i have enjoyed reading everyones comments from the club for about a year or so. I have been running 3 reef tanks with all high end corals (chalices polyps and various types of SPS's) for years and have recently sold my 180 and my 70 gallon frag tank. I am away from the home quite frequently and the wife needs a break. We have decided to turn our 150 gallon into a FOWLR and move all of the corals into a 3-400 gallon triangle tank with 2 built in 15 gallon quarantine tanks (one for fish and one for new corals. The plumbing will be full of ball valves, to allow the tanks to be run independently while waiting to make sure that everything is healthy before adding to the main tank. Hope I haven't lost anyone yet. The lights will be three evo 200's from reefkoi with the whites turned down to half power for the crisp look of all the corals.
The plumbing will be a little more complicated than normal because i have decided to run 3 different tanks underneath for the top off, refugium, and the sump. Hooking all of this up to the quarantine tanks will be a mixture of return pumps and gravity. The main return pump will be an exterior ran little giant, probably around 2,000 gph.
So i know that it sounds like i have everything figured out right? WRONG. LOL. I cannot figure out the water flow within the main tank. The dimensions of the tank are 5.5', by 5', with 7.5' of glass that you can see through (the 5' and the 5.5' sides will be against the walls at a 90 degree angle. Trying to meet the criteria of 50 x's the water volume is proving to be a little tricky. I am trying to get the right wave motion for all of the SPS. My original thought is using 2 mp40's and a tunze wavebox. Wavebox in the 90 degree corner of the tank pushing towards the show side of the glass. Then having the one of the mp40's against the wall and the other on the opposite side.
Please let me know if you need more info from me before giving me any advice on my problem. I guess i could make a diagram of the main tank. I appreciate any resolutions.
I am new to posting on the site but i have enjoyed reading everyones comments from the club for about a year or so. I have been running 3 reef tanks with all high end corals (chalices polyps and various types of SPS's) for years and have recently sold my 180 and my 70 gallon frag tank. I am away from the home quite frequently and the wife needs a break. We have decided to turn our 150 gallon into a FOWLR and move all of the corals into a 3-400 gallon triangle tank with 2 built in 15 gallon quarantine tanks (one for fish and one for new corals. The plumbing will be full of ball valves, to allow the tanks to be run independently while waiting to make sure that everything is healthy before adding to the main tank. Hope I haven't lost anyone yet. The lights will be three evo 200's from reefkoi with the whites turned down to half power for the crisp look of all the corals.
The plumbing will be a little more complicated than normal because i have decided to run 3 different tanks underneath for the top off, refugium, and the sump. Hooking all of this up to the quarantine tanks will be a mixture of return pumps and gravity. The main return pump will be an exterior ran little giant, probably around 2,000 gph.
So i know that it sounds like i have everything figured out right? WRONG. LOL. I cannot figure out the water flow within the main tank. The dimensions of the tank are 5.5', by 5', with 7.5' of glass that you can see through (the 5' and the 5.5' sides will be against the walls at a 90 degree angle. Trying to meet the criteria of 50 x's the water volume is proving to be a little tricky. I am trying to get the right wave motion for all of the SPS. My original thought is using 2 mp40's and a tunze wavebox. Wavebox in the 90 degree corner of the tank pushing towards the show side of the glass. Then having the one of the mp40's against the wall and the other on the opposite side.
Please let me know if you need more info from me before giving me any advice on my problem. I guess i could make a diagram of the main tank. I appreciate any resolutions.
