[fishman51]

I have obtained a 30 gal acrilic aquarium that I am building a stand for, going to put 30 gal under it with return and protien skimmer 100 sea clone then baffles. Plan on putting pump in center 2100 Rio and on the other side fuge with some of the water off of the main tank going into it with ball valve controlling flow then one baffle overflowing into center to be pumped up to tank. Planning on a Aquactinics Tx5 series 36 for lights with two 420nm and 3x6k midday all 39 watt bulbs 195 watts all together.

[glampka]

Do yourself a favor & get a quality skimmer - forget the SeaClone

[fishman51]

Is RO water ok to mix or does it need to be RO DI?

[fishman51]

Originally Posted by glampka

Do yourself a favor & get a quality skimmer - forget the SeaClone

What would you recomend as a quality skimmer?

[fishman51]

how about a ASM G1 would that be a better choice?

[fishman51]

question about setting up plumbing, should I just have one port putting water in on opposite side of drain side or should I have a more elaborate spray system to design?

[fishman51]

Hello???????????

[Jeremy0322]

I have been told to go with the spray bar design. It does not seem that hard to do and it will get rid of alot of "Dead Spots" that would otherwise be found in your tank.

[fishman51]

Ok so a spray bar across back of tank with 3/16th holes and decided to up pump to 3100 rio to get closer to a 20x flow.

[fishman51]

I believe I am going to buy Nautilis Protien skimmer from lfs does 300 sound like a good price?

[Jeremy0322]

You can go ahead and do the back spray bar if you want but i am thinking of something a little more intricate. There are a few guys on here that actually made a nice little maze of pvc pipe under the sand and then brought little jets up to make little currents and stuff...looked kinda neat and i think that is what im going to try. Seems like it would be a little more effective then just pushing everything to the front of the tank, but what do i know. Im still really new at this

[fishman51]

That sounds interesting is there a diagram or picture of what you are talking about? What are they using for jets?

[Jeremy0322]

I was trying to find it on here a few minutes ago but didnt have much luck. Maybe someone else has an idea as to where it is but i will keep looking and post back

[fishman51]

Thanks, I was wondering how well that flow would be behind live rock, makes sense to do a maze as long as it doesn't hurt flow to much.

[Jeremy0322]

The only thing that you need to make sure of is that you have a nice flow going though the tank. Something like a 1400gph overflow like this would work out very nicely as long as you had the right return pumps to keep up with it. Then you could have somewhere between 6-8 jets in theory that barely poke out from the sand or whatever you are using and get some really awesome flow. It would also be pushing alot of water per hour so the filtration would be good.

Good site for the overflow box and not that prices. Thank e_baer for it, he showed me the link. Hang-on Continuous Siphon Overflow 1400 gph w/ 2 Bulkheads - 704009

[fishman51]

I found the link Jeremy thanks for your help

[Jeremy0322]

You should post it on here so that i can look at it again. I wanna save it and use it as a guide type thing when i make mine. Thanks

[fishman51]

here is what I found about jets

Here is an article written on the construction of these jets.

[fishman51]

I don't know how to post link but I found the information by doing search for spray bars and msu posted it in jvhardings thread.

hope that helps

[Jeremy0322]

All that i do is copy the link and then paste it into the reply window. Works well for me

[fishman51]

After looking at that I believe I need to get smaller return pump and put small pump in display tank driving spray bar.

[fishman51]

That is what I did but didn't get link

[fishman51]

I don't know why but when I come back to this thread it doesn't show me all the new post unless I send quick reply

[fishman51]

Constructing Under-Gravel Jets

[fishman51]

when using a retro light kit do you need an exsisting hood or just make one out of wood?