Sistawolf
Valuable Member
My tank is a custom made. Dimensions are 72X18x16
I had a Gyre wavemaker 350 and it quit working and I bought another one. But I never really liked how one end of the tank always had detritus trying to start up constantly. If I turned up the wavemaker, it would throw water out of my tank. If I lowered it, it looked like a snow solid and would blow sand everywhere until I had zero left near the end where it was placed. So I invested in 2 Vortech MP40s. After about 7 months of having them. The dry side of one starting making a terrible sound. I contacted vortech and they shipped me the insides of the dry side. I put it together and it has been about 7 months and it started making the same sounds. I just took the one off line and have had the one working. Which stinks, but I was out of warranty and didn’t have $900 to replace it. Now 2 months later my other one is making the same noise. It will make this loud noise until it finally quits working. Again, I do not have $800 or $2000 for two to spend atm. It makes me SICK that these have gone out now that warranty is not available. I even purchased the Vortech pump for the sump. So it would all match. So now, I am needing some advice on what you guys use or what I should do as far as water flow because I’m at a loss and again don’t have $2k to spend on my tank. My tank is a Fish only by the way. I Have 4 fish. One clown (because it’s bonded mate disappeared after 8 years of life) a blue tang, a damsel and a wrasse. I have live rock but no coral. (Which I guess you guys get that being its fish only lol) anyway any help I can get on this would be greatly appreciated!
I had a Gyre wavemaker 350 and it quit working and I bought another one. But I never really liked how one end of the tank always had detritus trying to start up constantly. If I turned up the wavemaker, it would throw water out of my tank. If I lowered it, it looked like a snow solid and would blow sand everywhere until I had zero left near the end where it was placed. So I invested in 2 Vortech MP40s. After about 7 months of having them. The dry side of one starting making a terrible sound. I contacted vortech and they shipped me the insides of the dry side. I put it together and it has been about 7 months and it started making the same sounds. I just took the one off line and have had the one working. Which stinks, but I was out of warranty and didn’t have $900 to replace it. Now 2 months later my other one is making the same noise. It will make this loud noise until it finally quits working. Again, I do not have $800 or $2000 for two to spend atm. It makes me SICK that these have gone out now that warranty is not available. I even purchased the Vortech pump for the sump. So it would all match. So now, I am needing some advice on what you guys use or what I should do as far as water flow because I’m at a loss and again don’t have $2k to spend on my tank. My tank is a Fish only by the way. I Have 4 fish. One clown (because it’s bonded mate disappeared after 8 years of life) a blue tang, a damsel and a wrasse. I have live rock but no coral. (Which I guess you guys get that being its fish only lol) anyway any help I can get on this would be greatly appreciated!
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