The wash of waves back and forth encourages feeding and keeps the food suspended in the water column. Most users report increased polyp extension as well. The benefits of a wave flow in the tank are many, the primary effect is a lifting and suspending action, which helps keep debris from accumulating on the tank bottom and keeps it in the water circuit where it can be removed by the filtration. It is also more aesthetically pleasing with its more modern, contoured design. The main advantage of the 6214 over its forerunners is a focus on reducing noise through isolating the box from contact with the glass by silicon isolators between the box and the magnet holders. It utilizes a custom pump that is essentially a hybrid of the 61, pump 6215.200, designed to maximize the wave effect while reducing noise created from rapid on and off cycling. The 6214 replaced its predecessors 62 and is suitable for aquariums up to 370 gallons. The current line up includes the 6208 Comline Wavebox for aquariums up to 200 gallons, at the heart is a 6055 stream pump. Tunze’s latest controllable Stream models can do this natively with the included 7090 controller, but the Wavebox does it with less electricity consumption and to greater effect. The alternative is two pumps cycling in an inverse frequency to create a “push/pull” effect, this of course uses more power and generally results in a smaller wave. By combining displacement the Tunze Wavebox is unleashing a greater amount of energy in each pulse as the box empties and fills with each pump cycle. 80 seconds in typical home aquariums of 3-8 ft in length, that will produce this wave effect. Each tank dependent on size and layout will have one frequency, generally between. In this way a small amount of energy can build to dramatic effect. To explain it simply resonance frequencies are inherent in all structures, it is a frequency which allows energy to build so one wave collides additively with another. Still to this day, other pump manufacturers have adapted the resonance frequency concept to produce a wave but without the displacement, two pumps are generally needed, one on each side, using twice as much energy for a generally smaller wave. It instead combined the principle of resonance frequency with the displacement of the box as the pump cycled off and on. A true wave generator that did not use paddles or dump buckets. It is so exciting for me that my tank was selected as Tank of the Month, and it is a great honor for me and my country since this is the first Chinese tank to be featured as Tank of the Month.Introduced in 2004, the Wavebox 6212 was the first product of its kind. I would like to thank the Reef Central team that has made my dream come true and given me a chance to share my story with reefkeepers all over the world. I was born and raised in Beijing, China, and I started my first reef tank in 2003. It was difficult to find the knowledge and equipment needed for a reef tank in China at that time only a few people knew the basic concepts of reefkeeping such as the use of live rock and the Berlin method, and I was not one of them. So, as per the recommendation from my LFS, I started out in the hobby using dead rocks, a very low flow rate in the tank and many ceramic rings in the sump with a small and weak skimmer. The result was terrible! Fortunately, we live in the age of the Internet, and I have learned a great deal from Reef Central and Reefkeeping Magazine, and was able to buy equipment from various websites such as Premium Aquatics. So, in the first two years I kept making modifications to the system, and finally, I learned how to provide proper nutrition to the inhabitants, how to keep calcium and alkalinity in control, and how to deal properly with lighting and flow. In 2006 I decided it was necessary to re-design the whole system to reach my dream-an SPS dominated tank. I then started my second reef tank, a 180-gallon lagoon style system focused primarily on SPS corals. In 2008 I built the present 250-gallon system and moved over most of the corals from the old tank.
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