Best Place For Intake/outflow In A Corner Aquarium?

[MermaidMel]

I have got a 50 gallon corner aquarium the intake tube is in the middle of the right back wall and the spray bar is at the top of the left back wall.

The only thing is the flow of the spray bar is rather strong and seems to by pass the spray bar, there are always little bits floating around the aquarium. They don't seem to affect my water stats though. With all my rectangular tanks, I've never had this problem.

What would be a better solution?

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Very good question..... We are all blocked by paradigms & cannot really solve when faced with the unusual situation..... I'm trying to picture this.... Is it a triangular shaped tank??... In which case, it would make sense to put the spray bar parrallel to the front glass & the intake in the back corner??.... If you have floating "thingies"... maybe your pump is a bit of an overkill...

 

[MermaidMel]

Very good question..... We are all blocked by paradigms & cannot really solve when faced with the unusual situation..... I'm trying to picture this.... Is it a triangular shaped tank??... In which case, it would make sense to put the spray bar parrallel to the front glass & the intake in the back corner??.... If you have floating "thingies"... maybe your pump is a bit of an overkill...

Hi Ludwig, the aquarium is a bow front triangle, so 2 straight edges and 1 curved edge. Juwel Trigon 190.
It's 190 litres and the external filter is graded for 200-500 litre aquariums.

A little picture to show you the locations of my pipework:

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|>>>spray bar(spraying |||||| outwards towards the front of the tank)
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|intake
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[Ludwig Venter]

Oh!..ok... I get the picture..... The best flow pattern in this case would then be to put the spray bar right in the centre of the back corner and aimed at the middle of the front glass (if you can in turn picture that), the the forward flow will turn left an right at the front glass causing a clockwise movement to one half of the tank and anti clockwise to the other side.... Ouch!!... I'm losing it, but maybe from that you can deduct what I mean......

 

[MermaidMel]

Oh!..ok... I get the picture..... The best flow pattern in this case would then be to put the spray bar right in the centre of the back corner and aimed at the middle of the front glass (if you can in turn picture that), the the forward flow will turn left an right at the front glass causing a clockwise movement to one half of the tank and anti clockwise to the other side.... Ouch!!... I'm losing it, but maybe from that you can deduct what I mean......

So I could just simply swivel the spray bar around so it's flat against one wall but cutting across the corner and spraying towards the front, that would work fine for me, the only thing I don't think I can do is move the intake into the back corner. Although I could possibly find a corner elbow to direct it into the corner, but is that really necessary to do or is it ok in the middle of the left side?

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Would be fine where it is, but more effective below the spray bar if you could manouvre it somehow... elbow sounds good.

 

[MermaidMel]

Would be fine where it is, but more effective below the spray bar if you could manouvre it somehow... elbow sounds good.

I always thought intake one end, outflow the other end?

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Would be fine where it is, but more effective below the spray bar if you could manouvre it somehow... elbow sounds good.

I always thought intake one end, outflow the other end?

Yes, but in this instance, you're blowing the flow away from the outlet... it circulates from the front glass, and it gets back to point "A" where it is sucked in again....

 

[wilsonian]

What about this (sorry for my crap paint pic)

The square is the in take and the circle is the spray back but on it's slide in the corner of the front.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

What about this (sorry for my crap paint pic)

The square is the in take and the circle is the spray back but on it's slide in the corner of the front.

Wish I knew how to illustrate as well with a pic.... Best I can do is draw, & then scan to photobucket and then place the scan.... I will do it shortly.... (just busy with a BBQ with some friends, but will get back).