Wave makers, tell me your experience.

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I'm trying to improve the flow in my tank. I'm looking at the seaswirl wave maker, i would like to hear your opinions and about other options.
 

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I've only so far experience with the vortech from EM.
But who wants to know
 

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Hydor makes a contoller and WaveMaker korallia evolution pumps that work well. Sicce also makes nice wave maker pumps. Maxspect gyres push some serious water also even at 20-30%.
 

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I have had two Jebao RW-8 wave maker pumps in my system for over a year now. They connect wirelessly to each other litterally with a push of a button. Master/slave setting. I put them on opposing ends of the tank and let them go at it on random wave setting. It varies the time and flow rate and only one pump is on at any time. Creates tons of random flow. And they are fairly economic in price.
 

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Maxspect Gyre or Icecap's version would work really well with pumps on each end.
 

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I've had the jebao wp40 and the jebao rw 20, I have to say excellent for what they cost. Ran x2 rw20 at around 30% in a 6x2x2.5. Any higher and I got a sand storm. I have now got 2x tunze 6105 but need to install them so I can't review them at the moment
 

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I have been using a scwd for several years, works great and it's only had to be cleaned once.
 

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Well I've just tried tunze 6105 all I can say is what a disappointment! 2 tunze 6105 vs a single jebao rw20 the jebao moves move water when on 20% and tunze on full.
 

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I'm happy with my Jebao RW15s. I've owned Tunze and Sicce and Koralia too. My next purchase will be Maxspect Gyres. Don't really like the magnets on the Tunzes. My advice is to stick with DC powerheads other than the SeaSwirl.
 

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I have two sea swirls and two wavs love them both

Sea swirls are great and I recommend them to everyone


Also look into the aquarist of the year tank he uses I think five
 

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And if ur having second thoughts look into some of the nice tanks on this forum
like Terrance or the guy who had reef savvy do the build at his house @locito277 build and there is another 125 reef savvy build using the, as well
They work well by switching up flow and use hardly any power to work the maintenance on them is next to nothing

Do it and u won't regret it
 

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