Waste Everywhere

[mginster]

What are some causes for a decent amount of waste accumulating on the rocks, etc? Weekly I use a target feeder to squirt water at the rocks / corals and a decent amount of waste moves around. I attached an image of my tank for reference, cant really see the waste.

Notes:
- 2 months old, first salt tank
- 24G nano
- Aqua Euro nano skimmer 2 in 2nd chamber
- Upgraded return to maxi jet 1200
- Koralia nano 240gph on opposite side
- 2 gal weekly water changes.

Guesses:
Koralia positioning is bad for getting waste into the overflow?
Overfeeding?
Crazy maroon clown that loves to fan her tail and cover everything in sand, which i could be mistaking for waste?
Still dealing with live rock die off from just being a 2 month old tank? All live rock was from established systems from people on this forum.

 

[Saltpro]

You just need some more flow is all. Try adding another powerhead on opposite side of the other korilla. I think the nano's are pretty weak as well. If your going to stick with the korilla nano's i would use at least 3 in your tank or up it to a bigger korilla on the next one you add. But i would say at minimum you need at least two power heads. You got to have that flow to keep crap suspended in the water column so it can reach your skimmer and be skimmed out. Nice looking tank though. [smilie=clapping.gif]

 

[mginster]

Thank you, I actually just rearranged everything and pissed off my clown more lol.

With the upgraded return and koralia i have 535 gph of flow in the tank. That's about 22 times the capacity. Should I still think about getting more?

 

[Spartan]

They also make a Koralia nano that is stronger 420 or 440 gph something like that... I have a 28 nano cube and I did the same thing and got the small one but ive already switched to the stronger one and its doing better