I'm suffering from a few deadspots in my tank and i feel i'm not getting enough water flow around my plants. I'm looking to add one or two wavemakers to my tank to help with the flow but i'm not entirely sure which ones to go for and how i should place them.

I've seen allpondsolutions have some and i was either looking at 2 of these http://www.allpondsolutions.co.uk/aqu ... rium-wavemaker-powerhead/

or one of these http://www.allpondsolutions.co.uk/aqu ... rium-wavemaker-powerhead/

I currently just have a single spray bar pointed at the surface.

Any recommendations on the above or any other wavemakers? I don't particularly want to go above £100 in total.

As for positioning am i better to have them half way down the tank pointing upwards or another way? Anyone have experience of wavemakers in a trop tank?

I have a 330l 4ft tank for info.

Thanks all
Steve

I can't help with wavemakers as I've never used one myself. you could just get a powerhead or two and place them such that the water circulates well - that's what I do if I have issues with dead spots. Two wavemakers may be a bit of an overkill for the type of fish you have.

I haven't quite got my head around the differences between wavemakers and powerheads! I have a large deadspot under my spray bar - am i better to look at powerheads then rather than wavemakers?

Are recommendations for my size tank that you may have used before?

Steve

It would appear from looking around on t'internet that people run a couple of powerheads at a time. I've had a look at the Hydor Koralia ones. I've seen the following

http://www.charterhouse-aquatics.co.u ... culation-pump-p-2494.html

http://www.charterhouse-aquatics.co.u ... culation-pump-p-3468.html

I'm thinking of either two of the first or one of the second?

Any opinions?

I think they may be a bit ott? If you really want something like that this one is a bit cheaper, but tbh I would just try the smallest one of these - I used to use that in a 200L tank with fancy goldfish

Thanks, I find a lot of conflicting info on the net but I have always trusted those on here. A few other sites have said an lph of 10x the tank size, others 20x is required. My main problem is my tank is deep and gets very little circulation at the bottom.

I quite like the hydor ones, maybe I should look at one of the lower lph ones of those?