Location: Mt. Vernon, Ohio - Hey they have a LFS with SW Fish
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nice pics. you could say that you could use more flow
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Single outputs on the bottom with a 45 degree angle toward the top. It will be strong though. You will probably have to glue a lot of things down. I forgot where your other two returns are. Nothing from the top side?
Guess that doesn't quite show it all. There are two returns coming over the top of the back that shoot straight down the back wall. These are the filter returns - different pump. You can see them in the latest pic just several posts back.
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Can you redirect the rear returns with 45s, pointed up? The way they are now, looks like they are just blowing into the back of your rockwork. To me, that would break a lot of the water movement. Point them up at a 45 will still provide movement behind the rock and may be able to create more surface agitation.
I've thought about sticking a 45 in the rear outlets to see what that will do. Those bulkheads are kind of weird though. They are slightly flanged like they were made to be left alone. Sticking anything into them only tightens up at the very back. Maybe some teflon tape will make something seat better. I will try that some time today.
Drum version - not sure. It comes out both of the rear returns and then switches to both of the front returns.
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Sounds like you have a version 3 drum, which is standard. If you really want to punch it up, you can use a version 1 drum which fires one at a time. Major, probably too much flow, but with those split returns on the bottom, maybe not.
One other thing you might try, is cutting the top half of the bottom 45s off at an angle. If you look at The Wuf's thread on OM's site, you will see that is what he did. What that does is reduce the angle to about 22.5 degrees and gives a higher trajectory to the flow out of those returns and improves the surface agitation. I was going to do that, but just didn't.
LOL - I wondered why his 45's looked kind of funny. The angle isn't the problem with me though since I'm using the flex nozzles. If I switch to a single on the fronts then I can make it aim at just about any angle I want. The problem I see is that I can then pick two spots to aim at. Not sure if even this would give good flow to the entire 48" span across the tank.
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