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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Mike, I was thinking about your suggestion you made yesterday and I realized how great of an idea that is!! I could make the first tier a rock support and the second tier can be hidden within the rocks. If I do it this way then I won't only have flow from back to front but in any direction...
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    Happy Birthday Mojoreef!!

    Happy Birthday and many more!! Have a great day. Paul
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    LOL Mike, everytime I have this great idea, your like don't do that. Haha, thanks though. Paul
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    The main reason is that with my 55, I had to go over the top and so there was a lot of plumping I did around the back and I just hate the look. So I said with this tank I would try to have everything in the stand except the chiller. And another important reason is that I'm going to soundproof...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    then again, I guess I could take the water up to the second tier first and back down to the bottom. I could also drill 2 more holes in the bottom and have 4 CL returns in the bottom instead of two and make a similar two tier structure, just a CL return going to each tier. But do you think the...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Mike, I had to think about this one. I got you on the CL drains, makes sense. For the CL returns I understand what you are saying, basically make a two tier structure. This also seems doable and makes sense but in this case I would probably just use a MBV. The reason I was going with the...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Mike, Here's an update. I switched to a central overflow. I plan to have two piles of rock to create a canyon. I was actually going to hide the overflows from my previous design with the two overflows. In this situation the overflow would be quite visible. The inner holes in the bottom...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Mike, I appreciate you allowing me to bounce ideas off of you. But I don't know if I agree with you on this CL thing. This is pretty interesting to me because I've been thinking about this for about a week. When you have a sump drain, the water is being drained to another tank and then...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Tom thanks for the reply, I'm not sure why I wasn't thinking about cleaning the overflow screens (now I see what Scott was saying), thats a good point. I guess I have to rethink the design a little. The only reason why I was going for 2 overflows is so I could have the CL drain in one and...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hey Mike just one other question. This is way off topic but why do you run a calcium reactor and kalkreactor? I know that the calcium lowers ph and the kalk raises it. I also know that kalkreactor is somewhat limited by your evaporation. I see a lot of people running both but I don't think I...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hi Scott and Mike, Thanks for the reply! Scott, the top of the tank will have perimeter bracing and a cross brace. Larry said he would use a single piece and cut out the openings for it. Lighting is going to be the standard stuff, two 400W IceCap ballasts with spiderlight or lumenarc...
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    New 160G Bowfront, any suggestions?

    Hi everyone, I'm looking for some suggestions about my new tank. After a 3 week search I decided on IAP to make my tank. It was down to Larry at Innovative Aquarium Products or Chris at Midwest Custom Aquariums. I thought both would make a great tank and both were very responsive to my...
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    design ideas for sump and closed loop

    Some people separate the drain so that some of the water goes into the sump and some goes into the refugium. But if you do this then you probably want to still join the drains and then separate them. It would just ensure that you had an even draw on both drains. The higher the flow thru your...
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    75G/90G AGA/Oceanic Bowfront

    Hey, Thanks for the replies. Actually its funny because I was just looking at both of your tanks and I was just trying to find Nikki's tank again in the thread when I noticed the replies :). The reason I was looking at your tanks is because I'm planning on having IAP make my tank. Yeah, I...
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    75G/90G AGA/Oceanic Bowfront

    Hello everyone, I am setting up a 75g or 90g bowfront aga or oceanic tank with a shallow sand bed (1-2in) and I need to decide where to have the holes drilled. I'm thinking about doing something similar to jlehigh http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1848 . I like the oceans...
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    Plumbing design and questions.

    Solov, No problem, I'm glad I could help. But don't give up on the high flow too quick. Its possible to have a high flow if you just plan things out correctly. If your building the sump yourself just think about bubbles in advance. You should take a look at www.barraquatic.com he has some...
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    Plumbing design and questions.

    Didn't realize this would be so long, it took a while to write but I hope it helps. Hey Solov, Firstly, maybe you just got your pump figures mixed up but a mag 7 will only give you 700gph at 0 head pressure (remember more head pressure will decrease you gph, as will elbows). Also find out how...
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    Overflow water noise

    Hey Eliyah, Okay, I posted a pic (I made it real quick) that I hope will help you. Note that the connection between the tee and the 45 deg elbow does not have to be a the water surface. It can be anywhere but I just happen to draw it there. The important thing is for the pipe coming from the...
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    Overflow water noise

    Finally... Hey Eliyah, How did that tee work for you? I hope it helped. Anyway, I think I finally found a way to really silence the water flowing thru the piping. Firstly, I should tell you that I switched to a stockman setup inside my overflow because of space issues. I think it works the...
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    Overflow water noise

    Hey Eliyah, Well the tee and elbow really help out with noise coming from the overflow water hitting the sump water. You should try it. It really cut down on that noise. What it does is allow the air to escape at the surface of the water as opposed to going down and bubbling violently back...
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