hmm; thx for the tip , will look into the atlantis...
as much as everyone wants to convince that parallel rads rock, try it out, really, the theory behind it rox, but in practice it's a little harder than u'd think.
btw, its not a problem of the res being too far down in the setup. somewhere , some tube is bound to go down, can't go up without ever going down. and thats where the air would just stay in the upper region.
let me put it like this. if u want EFFECTIVE parallel setup, the point where u split the tubing to go to each rad. from that point u need to halve the tubing diameter (try and get this plz), to get the same flowspeed as u were getting in the tubing going away from the pump. its like u r trying to power 2 misisipis from the moat behind your house. now in analogy the misisipi can provide same flow for two rivers, only if each river is half the width of the original misisipi, not the other way around. and that was the big problem. what r u gonna do, get your pump rigged with 1" tubing so u can split it up to get 2 1/2" going to each rad. g'luck finding a WB with 1" barbs, lol.
i need to chill now, its weekend
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