Wavemaker or Powerhead?

Looking to get some flow going in a dead spot of my tank, so either a powerhead or a wavemaker. What would be the better choice?

 

Depends, wavemakers moves more water around where as power heads creates more of a straight line current

 

@CharlZA ,

For me, to get rid of dead spots... wavemaker on opposite side of filter intake
Wavemaker does exactly what its called, creates like a wave type of movement which lifts debris off the floor from everywhere and pushes to the filter
I have long ditched powerheads

 

Thanks, what size would you recommend for a 4 foot? I see the smallest you can go is a SOBO WP-50M Wavemaker which is a 100 liters per hour.

 

Some powerheads have the advantage of adding a sponge filter in a pinch, but if one has plenty equipment/ tanks then less a concern.

 

Not fan of sobo wavemakers and WP-50M is very weak. i am using the sun-sun wavemaker can't remember the model name but its blue and uses the magnet.

 

Well I have a sandy substrate don't want something that blows the sand everywhere what volume per hour would you recommend

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Not very clued up on volume per hour went on one that was recommend to me after i failed with the two form sobo. sorry maybe mariaS can assist.

 

@CharlZA

We using Jebo wavemakers, also with the magnet
On one of the 600l pup tanks we using 5000l per hour
So i would say about 2500/3000l per hour
Whether it blows your sand away or not will depend on where and the angle at which you place the wavemaker
Some times takes 2 or 3 days of fiddling around until you get it the way you want it

 

Well, I got the SunSun that does 4000 liters per hour and it seems to be doing the job pretty well.

 

A wave maker will make an mess of the sand. Rather go powerhead add an diy spaybar or nozzle for focused flow. You can add an loc line flow accelerator.