goldscapes
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Hi there,
I’m posting a design for a custom spray bar for an Evolution Aqua Reef Pro 900s being used as a freshwater planted tank.
The reason for posting this here is to give others with experience of this the opportunity to contribute, leaving a (hopefully) useful resource for others who are doing something similar.
Here is a sketch of the overall design:
And now the commentary:
Any thoughts gratefully received.
I’m posting a design for a custom spray bar for an Evolution Aqua Reef Pro 900s being used as a freshwater planted tank.
The reason for posting this here is to give others with experience of this the opportunity to contribute, leaving a (hopefully) useful resource for others who are doing something similar.
Here is a sketch of the overall design:
And now the commentary:
- the 900s uses a standard herbie style sump overflow system with a single off-centre inlet. The manufacturers instruction manual suggests using this, in conjunction with a powerhead, to generate sufficient flow for a marine tank. I don’t want to run a separate powerhead and the 3000lph return pump should generate plenty of flow for a planted tank if I can create a better method of distributing it around the tank. After reading a lot of articles on here, I run spray bars to good effect on two tanks already so I am confident this is a better solution than a single jet inlet for reaching all the corners of the tank (please start a new thread if you wish to debate this).
- the inlet has an elbow joint with a 20mm female threaded connector. If anyone knows where I can find a suitable male connector to start this off I would be very grateful, I can only seem to find BSP (imperial) threaded connectors online (but I probably just don’t know what I should be searching for).
- the remaining connections should all be push-fit/friction joints so that I can dismantle the bar for cleaning.
- the overall width is 640mm this was judged by eye and leaves a bit of space each side to allow maintenance.
- as the inlet is already stepped down to less than 20mm I’m assuming 20mm pipe work will be fine.
- I used this post from @zozo to roughly calculate the number and size of the exit holes and rounded down to 3mm diameter (I figure I can always make them a bit bigger if necessary)
Any thoughts gratefully received.
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