I need tank advice

[Jdhairod]

I'm not particularly new to the hobby but I have been doing a half rate job since I started. I am a college student with not a lot of money or time to spend with my tank but I love it. I have a 34 gallon tank with the main occupant zoanthids but I also have 2 peppermint shrimp 2 pajama cardnials and a reef safe assortment of hermits and snails. My problem is that my tank is positioned in such a way that it can be seen one bolth sides with a hob skimmer and hob filter on either side. This creates flow problems leaving detritus that I have dealt with up to this point, but I am getting tired of having to stay on top of it all the time not to mention I have started to have bad cynano breakouts that I am constantly dealing with any advice would be great wether it is aquascaping advice or circulation pump advice or something else altogether.

 

[scooter31707]

IMO, you need more flow in the tank. Maybe add a powerhead to get all that junk moving around closer to the filter and see how that does.

 

[Cliving1]

Go to amazon, look at the sun sun powerheads they are like $10

 

[Jdhairod]

That is what I figured. I would really love do do things right but school is more important at the moment. Marineland has some cheaper powerheads I have been looking into I just figure they might be better quality than the sun sun. I'm also looking at polyfilter or some phosphate remover ie phos guard in the filter or a phosphate reducing filter wool.

 

[OrQidz]

do you have filter floss in the HOB filter that you can change out daily as it collects gunk? Also a turkey baster to blow debris around for the HOB would help remove some. But a cheap powerhead would help a lot too.

 

[Jeff4777]

Got those sun sun powerheads in some QT tanks, pretty good for 10 bucks and now mine are 100% purple in coraline lol. Yeah don't like suction cups though on main DT ;\.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I also use the SunSun powerheads and can tell you that you will not be wasting your money. I got two 800 gph for $8 each and that included shipping on Ebay. You don't need one that powerful as two of them in my 40b was way too much flow for my LPS corals. The pumps are quiet and they are as powerful as their GPH that is listed on them. I highly recommend them to anyone wanting a cheap alternative to powerheads.

I've also got a Korilla PH that is 750 gph and it's nowhere close to that IMO. I'm much happier with the SunSun's. If I were you I'd get two of the smallest that they have and put one on each side of your tank blowing at each other to give an erratic flow for best results. So either get the smallest ones or the next size up but again 800 will be way to much for your tank. IMO and IME

 

[Cliving1]

Yeah I mean I have two in my 80 gallon and they really move the water. I was about to grab 2 more just as backups because the price is so good. Dont sell them short!