Yellowworld's 2012 Nano Contest Entry

[lastlight]

Great thanks.

I'm guessing it's a little bit quieter than the standard box since you're not pumping from within a thin plastic cavity.

Do you think gluing the pvc sleeve to the front of the pump and slipping that into the bulkhead (no margnets) would work? Seems like that might be even more quiet?

EDIT: nevermind saw your watertest video and suddently remembered that this pump doesn't have a tube shaped shroud on it like the stream pumps. I even had a nano wavebox oops! You could take this one step further and use the rubber grommet mounts from the new nano streams to make it even more silent.

You get one hell of a wave in there btw!

[yellowworld]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Great thanks.

I'm guessing it's a little bit quieter than the standard box since you're not pumping from within a thin plastic cavity.

Do you think gluing the pvc sleeve to the front of the pump and slipping that into the bulkhead (no margnets) would work? Seems like that might be even more quiet?

I thought about that, but when you look at the magnetic holder it has rubber pads to stop the vibration from turning your whole tank into a tuning fork. I think if you were to make it all one solid piece as the pump turned on and off it would jump just a little as the all do but then because the bulkhead is directly on the glass with no rubber barrier 100% around it on all sides i think it would end up making a lot of noise and eventually hurt either the pump or the glass.

[yellowworld]

you would also have to notch the pvc to allow water to flow past it, and that would then decrease the area you can glue, i think after time it would just shake itself loose, but its worth a try!! i just never did

[yellowworld]

Alright so here is the finished product, in its final resting place















So now that that project is knocked off the list I have a few things left to go before splash down can commence!!

I still have to build an acrylic shield that will house my 90 degree cords for everything to get plugged into, and will also fully encapsulate the rest of my electronics so they don't end up with water damage from being in the sump cabinet,

and then i need to pick up, a two little fishies phosban reactor to run GFO and carbon

and then i need to pick up a 150w heater

and last but certainly not least i need to pick up a tunze 1073.050 silence pump to feed the reactor, the return to the tank, the refugium and the water fall

Then i can start to cycle the tank as i build the LED's to light it all up!!

[Nano]

Looks cool, definitely different any plans for the rock that sticks out of the water? Will it be a waterfall type deal or just stay dry?

[yellowworld]

Originally Posted by Nano

Looks cool, definitely different any plans for the rock that sticks out of the water? Will it be a waterfall type deal or just stay dry?

Yeah im actually planing on doing kind of a tide pool to a waterfall and then rest of the rock is going to get covered in some type of greenery and most likely mini orchids

[Ginu]

I've been following this built since the preliminary stages of the wave box and I have to admit, this has evolved into a truly epic built... cant think of anything missed, everything is done with a great deal of attention, truly epic in my opinion.

Well done and keep us posted :P