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I wish there was a pump like Vortech but the pump head had the ability to point in the direction you want. I added some Tunze 6095's and being able to point the pump head upward works best in my tank but now I'm stuck with wires [emoji58]
You mean @Rakie hasn't convinced you the Vortechs are too one directional. No ability to point the pump where you want sucks as they can easily blast your corals.I'd love to see a really good solution. At this point, I just stick with vortechs
Not where I have mine positioned ;StigYou mean @Rakie hasn't convinced you the Vortechs are too one directional. No ability to point the pump where you want sucks as they can easily blast your corals.
On RC, @slief had some pictures up of his Tunze pumps. He attached them on his old closed loop outlets and ran the wires through the old plumbing.
Yea, I like to mount mine through bulkheads whether it was on the back of my tank or on customers tanks through the wall on the overflow. The older Tunze's that I used on my tank required the wires to be desoldered from the little interface box. The newer Tunze's with the built in controller have a nice little plug on them that can easily be removed from the Tunze controller if you open the box up.When it comes time for cleaning them, I just pull the pumps out of the tank and pull some cable through the pipe and do the cleaning on top of the tank in a pot with vinegar and a scrub brush.
These ones were used in a customers tank where they were mounted to bulkheads on the overflow. The wires came out the top of the overflow above the tank. You can see plug that goes into the Tunze controller box.
These were on my tank and mounted to existing bulkheads on the rear of the tank where my old closed loop pumps were.
Some more pictures of the ones I did for a customer. I used nylon screws and nuts to mount the Tunze silence base to the PVC pipe.
This is how the wires come out the back of my display. The old closed loop pipes were cut and the bulkheads were rotated upwards with just enough pipe left to extend above the water line where the wires come of of the back of the tank. This entire retrofit from closed loop to Tunze was done while the tank was fully stocked. I have used this method on other custom installs and have used this same method to mount Tunze's to overflows on customers tanks as well.
what is a closed loopI hate wires showing in the tank and the only way I could figure out how to get around that issue is for the main flow to be created with a closed loop.
I also use Mp-40's for problem areas.
I've seen a few people try to say that closed loops are out of style or obsolete, but it sure beats loading a tank up with pumps with wires in the water.