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sea swirl mod
may have already been done. i was tired of the output of my seaswirl blowing water over the front of my tank, so i cut the bottom threaded half of the elbow off as close as possible and in the bottom of the opening i cut a vee. now the water comes out in a spray from just below the surface to almost 90degrees downward. it almost seems to pulsate and it really improved my overall circulation. hope i explained that ok. i can post pictures in the near future.
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Great Idea! Show us a pic
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Sounds good, Way to go. pictures Please.
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anyone else do this and take pics? you ever take and pics saltyc?
id like to see this, im building some DIY SS in the near future. -nick
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I would like to see pictures too. I have been thinking of doing something like this for a while.
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I did it, I will get a pic. I tried several variations. The one that ended up being the best on my 3/4" seswirl was just a 1" 90 elbow with a V cut on the output. Took 30 seconds with the dremel, and improved flow distribution a ton in the lower part of the tank. So simple I cannot believe noone thought of this before! Thanks again for the idea Salty .
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awesome, thanks man. this seems too simple to make a big difference but you cant argue with results.
-nick
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You could paint the PVC black to add a level of difficultly if you want .
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Thanks for the info and the picture. I am going to give this a try.
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Yep I was shocked at what a big differance this makes. It really makes the flow more dispersed throughout the tank, so mush in fact I am considering removing my OM from the closed cloop and letting the outlets run wide open and let the swirl create the waves . Let me know how this works out for everyone.
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a local guy here has three sea swirls mounted vertically to where they are pointed straight down and moving left to right. Seams to be working really well.
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