I'm thinking of purchasing a wave maker or a powerhead for my 75 gallon to help with poop. How much would either of these items help? Can you share your own setups and methods you use to help me?
Best way to get rid of fish poop?
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I have 3 double head wavemakers and 2 powerheads in my 300 gl. show tank. Works great!
yes works better. The way I have mine setup is the wavemaker pumping the water on the surface and powerhead towards the bottom where. This will circulate the water much more sufficient.
I use my wavemaker to blow all the crap out from behind my rocks before my water change, so I can siphon it out. But otherwise, not really going to get rid of poop.
Here is how I have mine setup. I change direction once in the while so waste is not sitting in one corner.
If used correctly powerheads are an invaluable tool to help keep the aquarium crud free. A clutter free tank and you could get away with one reasonably sized powerhead in a 75. If you have lots of decor you may need multiple powerheads to get in all the nooks and crannies, otherwise you will quickly notice dead spots where crud collects away from the flow, and of course this defeats the whole object.
The placement of your outlet port (to your filter) also plays a big part. I have substrate skimming outlet ports so all the crud gently flows to these areas and gets taken away to my filter floss in my sump. Surface skimming outlet ports are a bit more of a challenge as heavier particulate is always going to want to sink!
Mine are on timers and come on intermittently through the day for one hour periods, they are off at night. Many of the better ones are variable speed which is great. In my experience, rather than choose a small one that might just do a job for you, I'd go bigger than what you actually need. If you get a larger variable speed one then you can tweak it to achieve exactly what you want.
Be patient, you'll soon find out what works for you in your set up. It took me a while. Too small powerheads and bad placement hindered me in the beginning.
Good luck.