I have a 150gal fish/invert/liverock tank and have a few dead spots in my water. Do I need to add power heads to stir the water in the dead areas in my tank? Would this help reduce my phosphate and and amonia levels? I have a pretty good wet/dry system with an in sump berlin turbo skimmer. My main pump (sequence dart 1/4hp 1550rpm) pulls the water from the wet/dry and sends it into a T splitter. From there the water travels two different paths... one side goes through my coralife 6x UV and then into my chiller which returns the water to the top center of the tank....the other path from the T splitter sends the water through an alternating wave maker that I have placed at the top back corners of the tank. The dead spots in the water are below these wave maker outlets in the bottom rear corners of the tank.
My fish are large waste makers and sometimes I can see a build up of waste in these dead spots. I have an adult emperor angel(heavy waste maker), a med size clown trigger, a small kole tang, two true perculas clowns, a longnosed hawk, 4 blue damsels, 3 black hawaiian brittle stars, 2 coral banded shrimp, several assorted hermit crabs, and about 50 pounds of liverock.
I'm sorry for the long post, but I would really like to get rid of my high phosphate levels and start growing some more coraline on the rocks that aren't live.... any help is appreciated.
rp
My fish are large waste makers and sometimes I can see a build up of waste in these dead spots. I have an adult emperor angel(heavy waste maker), a med size clown trigger, a small kole tang, two true perculas clowns, a longnosed hawk, 4 blue damsels, 3 black hawaiian brittle stars, 2 coral banded shrimp, several assorted hermit crabs, and about 50 pounds of liverock.
I'm sorry for the long post, but I would really like to get rid of my high phosphate levels and start growing some more coraline on the rocks that aren't live.... any help is appreciated.
rp