Help - wave maker placement/ GSP

[Harry g]

Hello everyone I recently added in a clown, two peppermint shrimp and a frag of gsp on the 10th, and I’ve noticed that my gsp has been closed up the (95 percent) of the time and when it is open, only like 5 percent of it is I moved it to the spot down on the picture two days ago and it hasn’t opened at all, I was wondering if it was the flow in my tank, and if it is, if someone could help me place my wave maker better I would appreciate it. It’s a “AQUANEAT Circulation Pump, 800GPH Aquarium Wave Maker, Fish Tank Powerhead Submersible Water Pump with Suction Cup.” In a 20 gallon Aqueon tank and I have put pictures of it along with my light schedule on an ai prime down below.
For my parameters ammonia is 0 nitrite 0 and nitrate 20 using api, I don’t have any calcium or magnesium test kits because the guy at my lfs I didn’t need any of those tests with one soft coral, I am using instant ocean but not the one for reefs I plan to switch to a different one when I run out.

TIA,

 

[Subsea]

Difficult to tell without a video. Ripples on water surface show plenty of circulation. More than GSP need. Too much flow may be the problem. What coral is on top of rock work?

 

[Harry g]

Difficult to tell without a video. Ripples on water surface show plenty of circulation. More than GSP need. Too much flow may be the problem. What coral is on top of rock work?

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Not sure how well of a job I did with the video. The piece of coral on top of the rock work is fake, and I bought it from a seller on fbm if that’s what you were asking.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[Harry g]

Difficult to tell without a video. Ripples on water surface show plenty of circulation. More than GSP need. Too much flow may be the problem. What coral is on top of rock work?

View attachment 20251118_052050_2354A99A-33FA-4528-B85F-B0C73E913B75.mov
Not sure how well of a job I did with the video. The piece of coral on top of the rock work is fake, and I bought it from a seller on fbm if that’s what you were asking.
Thanks for the reply.

I’ve uploaded a link because I’m not sure if R2R’s video uploads works.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

It looks very dim in the tank, is that an AI Prime light? It should be set somewhere around 80%+ IMO..... I have a Prime on my 15 gallon at 80% for mainly soft corals. The flow looks fine to me.

 

[exnisstech]

Sometimes corals don't do well in new tanks. My GSP failed when I tried it early so i just gave it a pass and tried it again later. I know it's supposed to be one if the easier beginner corals but that was not my experience. I now have some in several tanks. It does good in NO3 30+ PO4 0.3 -0.9 medium flow amd medium light.
But it doesn't mind low nutrients. I'm not sure you can give it too much flow or light. I have some growing like crazy in my SPS tank where NO3 runs near zero and I dose ammonium to keep it detectable. PO4 is not much higher at 0.04 Its getting 500 par and with a lot of flow. Tank is 36x22x22" with two MP40s running 70% both on the back wall. It grows so fast I have to cut it back from the wier every 2-3 weeks.

This shows the flow

 

[Harry g]

It looks very dim in the tank, is that an AI Prime light? It should be set somewhere around 80%+ IMO..... I have a Prime on my 15 gallon at 80% for mainly soft corals. The flow looks fine to me.

It’s because when I took the photo it was 5 am so lights weren’t fully on, usually I have it at about 90/80 percent I’m using one of the schedules on the aI website.

 

[Harry g]

Sometimes corals don't do well in new tanks. My GSP failed when I tried it early so i just gave it a pass and tried it again later. I know it's supposed to be one if the easier beginner corals but that was not my experience. I now have some in several tanks. It does good in NO3 30+ PO4 0.3 -0.9 medium flow amd medium light.
But it doesn't mind low nutrients. I'm not sure you can give it too much flow or light. I have some growing like crazy in my SPS tank where NO3 runs near zero and I dose ammonium to keep it detectable. PO4 is not much higher at 0.04 Its getting 500 par and with a lot of flow. Tank is 36x22x22" with two MP40s running 70% both on the back wall. It grows so fast I have to cut it back from the wier every 2-3 weeks.

This shows the flow

Do you think I would benefit from having two smaller wave makers instead of one big wave maker I was thinking about getting two of these mini slim 2000 wave makers which run about 500 gallons per hour