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Having issues with detritus sitting on the left side of my tank. I run a Nero 5 on the left side of wall at 50% also it’s the same area where my overflow is so may not be enough pull from my return pump but does drain quiet well. Or my Nero five is just blowing it away from the drain part Other side of the tank right side wall running a smaller jaebo pump at 100% and isn’t seem to be doing much. Both are up top about 4-5 inches from water surface. Do corner over flow tanks have this issue with dead spots ? Do I need powerheads on back wall where my return nozzle is ? Photo for example. Older photo

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How big is this tank? Looks like those wavemakers are undersized for that tank. I run two MP40's on my 120g tank.
Make sure you have different flow schedules throughout the day as well.
 
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How big is this tank? Looks like those wavemakers are undersized for that tank. I run two MP40's on my 120g tank.
Make sure you have different flow schedules throughout the day as well.
It’s about an 80g and I have to agree the right side pump jaebo is under preforming lol and I currently am only running wave mode throughout the day for the Nero 5 at 50% probably for 1.5 seconds on and half a second or .750 of a second on through the flow schedule
 
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How big is this tank? Looks like those wavemakers are undersized for that tank. I run two MP40's on my 120g tank.
Make sure you have different flow schedules throughout the day as well.
 

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I think you pulse rate is too long. Does the water in your tank "rock" back and forth? Here's what my MP40's run (schedule below). You can see that for wave, the pumps are at 450ms each (opposite of each other).
I also think your GPH is low, but I don't always put too much into GPH for wave makers.
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I think you pulse rate is too long. Does the water in your tank "rock" back and forth? Here's what my MP40's run (schedule below). You can see that for wave, the pumps are at 450ms each (opposite of each other).
I also think your GPH is low, but I don't always put too much into GPH for wave makers.
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AI only has 3 modes. Pulse // random // constant. I only have pulse on nothing else. I could split it up into four modes and do 2 hours pulse 2 hours random 2 hours pulse and 2 hours random. That might work better in my favor. But not even sure. That’ll only be for one powerhead as well as the jaebo gets tossed I did end up ordering another that pushes more GPH or flow and can tinker with it. There’s just a dead spot in the right corner of the tank basically
 

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