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Old 01-08-2011, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by lastlight View Post
Thanks Paul I like what you did there. Are you saying that's not ideal and I might *want* to change the rockwork up or...?
Not saying it isn't ideal, I just wanted to show you where I would drill given the drawing you posted, the flow, where possible should move as much water as possible to pull in water from the surrounding area and hopefully gain momentum, burying C/L feeds in two of the islands will help as well.

Placing the bulkheads just inside the edge of the aquascaping goes a long way to hiding all hardware in the tank,the C/L feeds will not be seen at all, sometimes a return really needs to be at a certain place to get optimum flow and in that case you need to disguise it with small pieces of rock and or shells.

There are ideal scenarios for getting the maximum blast for the buck and getting excellent flow, but this isn't a frag tank you are building, this is your tank and your aquascaping done to your design, it's up to me to figure out the best way to get the flow in the tank that you want.

Paul


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