AJ_TSin's 47g Shallow Rimless

Scythanith · Sep 1, 2014

Great collection you have going! I have an order or RR sps frags (UOP, Blue Matrix, Wolverine, Tropical Hurricane, Strawberry Shortcake) coming my way this month

Now I know who to bug for more

AJ_Tsin · Sep 2, 2014

Scythanith said:
Great collection you have going! I have an order or RR sps frags (UOP, Blue Matrix, Wolverine, Tropical Hurricane, Strawberry Shortcake) coming my way this month Now I know who to bug for more

Thanks. I'd love to see pictures of yours when you get them.

Scythanith · Sep 2, 2014

Will do!

AJ_Tsin · Sep 2, 2014

September FTS

Oscaror · Sep 7, 2014

Is that just one vortech pumping all that water?

Scythanith · Sep 7, 2014

It's only a 47g tank. I'm sure one vortech would be more than enough

Oscaror · Sep 7, 2014

Scythanith said:
It's only a 47g tank. I'm sure one vortech would be more than enough

So I can ditch all my other pumps for a vortech on my 46 gallon?

CausticGuy · Sep 7, 2014

Oscaror said:
So I can ditch all my other pumps for a vortech on my 46 gallon?

If you read post one he has 2 MP 10. I read on nano reef he uses on on the back glass with the returns to create a whirlpool and the one in the side for randomness. Looks like it's working well for him.

AJ_Tsin · Sep 7, 2014

Oscaror said:
Is that just one vortech pumping all that water?

2 x.

Scythanith said:
It's only a 47g tank. I'm sure one vortech would be more than enough

Could be but the shallow footprint actually makes it pretty hard to get flow moving enough without creating air bubbles or sand storms.

Oscaror said:
So I can ditch all my other pumps for a vortech on my 46 gallon?

CausticGuy said:
If you read post one he has 2 MP 10. I read on nano reef he uses on on the back glass with the returns to create a whirlpool and the one in the side for randomness. Looks like it's working well for him.

This. I have one as far as I could get it in the top right corner of the back in Reef Crest Mode. This swirls the whole tank and gets the entire water column moving in a whirlpool effect. The one on the side usually runs on Short Burst creating a wave, but I recently switched it to Reef Crest as well to see if it makes a difference. Not sure yet.

Scythanith · Sep 8, 2014

Depends on what sort of flow you can get in the tank. Like was already mentioned you need some random flow to keep dead spots from forming and accumulating detritus.

I have been running my mp40's in sync/anti sync random reef crest.