OK, so i want a wavebox

[SnowManSnow]

ya.. i think i may try a tunze wavebox on my new 120 I'm gathering equipment for.

Will I still need additional water motion in the tank (modded maxijets and such), or should the wavebox be sufficient?

Also, there is a nano wavebox... do you guys think it would be sufficient to slosh things around? or will i need the normal one for a 120?

Thanks,
B

 

[camaroracer214]

there is a smaller wavebox i believe. i saw it somewhere, i believe tunze, but i'm too lazy to look for it now.

 

[SnowManSnow]

It's a tunze nano.. but its only rated up to 150. You know how those ratings go.. that being said.. tunze stuff is normally top tier.

They are both on the tunze webpage.

Has anyone ever actually owned one?

B

 

[SnowManSnow]

Here's the link to both of them


http://www.tunze.com/149.html?&L=1&C=US ... zeprod_pi1[predid]=-infoxunter016

 

[Unarce]

The nano wavebox should fine, B. Maybe a couple pumps for surface agitation would be good, too.

The only thing I'd be concerned about is the quality of the tank it would be used in. The amount of water these things move is impressive and scary at the same time.

We've seen or heard how a poorly made tank can succumb to the pressure of standing water. Imagine when 800 lbs of it is continuously shifting from from side to side.

I remember reading that Tunze recommends that the tank must be built within the Timoshenko Formula in order to have the structural strength to handle a wavebox.

Don't ask me what the Timoshenko Formula is

 

[Anonymous]

8O I never thought of that...

 

[Ben1]

I had one and while they do work, they are large and take a lot of realestate up in the tank. I couldnt stand the way they looked in the my tank and the only way I would do it again is if the tank had hidden built in waveboxs.

 

[FifeReef]

Was in a LFS in Portland, Oregon awhile back talking about waveboxes with the owner. He had a customer who had a disaster with one. Only it wasn't his tank that blew out because of the stress. It was actually his stand that basically just swayed apart and his whole setup collapsed! I'm thinking it must have been a cheap stand, but still something to think about.

 

[SnowManSnow]

while some may absolutely loath the idea.. I think I'm going to have the 120 built by glass cages. They built my current tank and its absolutely built like a TANK.

That being said if I do go for a wavebox I guess I should get a standard eurobraced tank as opposed to one that is rimless.

OR I could buy an acrylic 120 with eurobracing. I wonder if acrylic joints are stronger than glass. The acrylic tank would come from MRC in Atlanta and cost $800 though as opposed to $550 ;(


The stand is being made now.. me and another person are doing the build. I think You can park a car on it.

B

 

[SnowManSnow]

btw I'm looking for something like a TEK 48" T5 setup for this tank.. if anyone has or knows of a used one.7-10 lamps

 

[SnowManSnow]

also, the nano is considerably smaller and moves less water as a result.. I guess that would mean less stress on everything.

b