Hi everyone, been a while since the last time I posted on r2r. I'm planning on building a new tank and I'd like to hear some advice from you guys, especially those who might have similar experience in this matter.
The tank is 180 cm long, 80 cm wide, and 60 cm high (6' x 31" x 24"), and it would be a mixed reef peninsula with mostly SPS with quite thick sand just because I love the look of it. I'd try to have as effective and efficient negative spaces as possible on the rockscape. It will function as a room divider from the foyer to the living room area. The thing is, I would love to have the maximum view from all three sides, which means there should be minimum, if not none, equipment on those sides. With that in mind, having a decent flow would be a challenge.
Here are several options I took into consideration for now:
The tank is 180 cm long, 80 cm wide, and 60 cm high (6' x 31" x 24"), and it would be a mixed reef peninsula with mostly SPS with quite thick sand just because I love the look of it. I'd try to have as effective and efficient negative spaces as possible on the rockscape. It will function as a room divider from the foyer to the living room area. The thing is, I would love to have the maximum view from all three sides, which means there should be minimum, if not none, equipment on those sides. With that in mind, having a decent flow would be a challenge.
Here are several options I took into consideration for now:
- 2 MP60s, each on the sides of the overflow box halfway down under the water surface, and 2 closed loops to support them.
- the above set up with 3 more gyres. 2 sweeping the long side of the glass, 1 opposite to the overflow, pushing suspended (hopefully) waste and detritus down the drain.
- set up number 1 with only 1 gyre at the opposite of the overflow
- set up number 3 with 4 MP40s instead of 2 MP60s