Surfs up! Kowabunga! (Wave system)

I figure if the fish are smart enough to figure out how to commute from one tank to another (which I love), they're also smart enough to figure out which tank doesn't make waves! The fact that they have lived so long and still choose to move from tank to tank seems to me that they are quite happy with their environment.

Very cool idea, kcress. I like it.
 
Victorio said:
Sorry buddy but that just looks like a torture tank, not cruel at all. Kind of resembles a fish tank i once saw in a circus. Experimenting with your amazing wave machine scaring the hell out of the fish. Im sorry for sounding harsh and i know criticism should be constructive on these forums so here is goes.

Clear out all that algae, get some life rock and actually create a habitat that looks somewhat similar to the ocean.
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So you're saying you won't find any algae or waves in the ocean?

I like the setup. It's very innovative. I also like how the algae looks in the tank.

Be sure and get a video before you tear it all down.
 
Subliminal; Thanks for the link. Nice job!
How do you prevent an overfill disaster? How does the water comeback from the tank?

On mine the jumps can go empty from various causes. An insidious reason is oxygen evolution from plants. Bubbles from any source finding themselves in a jump congregate at the top. Once enough congregate the jump ceases to transmit water,(or fish for that matter).

Since water is coming from my left tank and being pumped to the right tank a break in any jump spells disaster as about a third of the left tank can be brought to the disaster before the pump suction line is uncovered.

In the right tank I have an electronic water detector. If water reaches the face of the detector located about 1/4" from the top of the tank rim the pump is disabled. What normally happens is the pump is disabled which results in the water siphoning back to the left tank from the right one thru the pump. When it gets low enough the pump gets re-enabled which means the system starts to gallop. The pump starts/stop/starts/stops and someone notices.

The large wave pump is then used to reestablish the jump siphons. Notice the plexy block on the top of the jump in the above picture? I drilled that block at right angles. One has a hose fitting screwed into it. The other aligns with a hole in the top of the jump. The hose runs off to the big pump suction line. Whenever a wave cycle occurs any air bubbles in the top of the jumps are drawn off and contribute to the ensuing wave bubble fog.


As a backup; notice the right two tanks are surrounded by black plexy walls. I made those rings then plexy glued them together. I then test fit them into the top lips of the tanks. They fit so I siliconed them in. They have saved my bacon many times!! I have manually run the wave pump filling those tanks until the water was almost to the top of those surrounds with never a leak before noticing my error.
 
kcress said:
Subliminal; Thanks for the link. Nice job!
How do you prevent an overfill disaster? How does the water comeback from the tank?
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On the wave/closed loop system it draws water directly from the display and puts it back in the display. It can only use the water that's already there, so if the tank is filled to the right level from the beginning, it stays there.

Maybe you're talking about my ATO setup, which has overflowed a time or two...but that's in no way connected to the wavemaker. ;)
 
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