spray bar?

Heath

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Does anyone know of a good diy write up on a spray bar? I was wanting to do one for my return from the sump.
 
@Heathd wrote:
Does anyone know of a good diy write up on a spray bar? I was wanting to do one for my return from the sump. said:
a spray bar on salt water ? Can you say salt creep crust everywhere.
 
If its submerged just below the water line, I dont see the issue. I was mainly looking for a way to evenly dispense flow from my sump.
 
@Heathd wrote:
If its submerged just below the water line said:
the mist will still be an issue unless released way under the surface. Not an issue if you don't mind salt creep.
 
The concept is fairly simple what I did was use PVC. Since my manifold crosses over my fugue area I just put a ball valve facing down to the fuge if you can do that then you can use a flexible polyvinyl or spa flex, but you will have to figure out a way of mounting or securing it some way so it doesn't move around. I used junk I had around the house so I made mine with a 90 elbow. But I would recommend a tee that way it's centred. As soon as I have time I will make a quick one and post some pictures in the diy section for you. But you drill a bunch of small holes so snails and stuff can't get in. I only drilled a quarter way around the pipe and positioned it against the wall spraying toward the return section and with the ball valve you control the amount of flow


I've been running it since I put together my tank almost two years ago and have never had any salt spay problems. The flow is fairly fast and it's good because at low volumes it still makes enough flow to keep the macro tumbling
 
It's really easy. I had one to control how much return I was getting. Just get a t fitting and install it to your return plumbing, then run that to a ball valve and then to wherever you want the spray bar
 
Maybe I'm confused but it sounds like he/she is talking about having a spraybar in the actual display tank. [smilie=surprised.gif]

Cheers,
 
Spraybars are kind of old school. Most have never seen one cause they weren't around when that was popular option. That was a popular way in the old days before we had a mulitude of powerhead options.
 
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