Lily pipe and circulation help

[Wildwhimsy]

I’m in the process of setting up this 36 gallon bow front. I’m using an oase bio master thermo 250 for my cannister filter and I have inline co2. I’m seeing an issue with circulation, especially in the bottom of the tank. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! (I’m not sure the brand of Lily pipes but they’re the biggest ones I have and were gifted to me.)

 

[JayP]

Unfortunately, the 250 is a bit under-powered for that tank, especially since I think it's over 22" tall (Topfin perhaps?) and you're using a straight "jet" style pipe. All my suggestions would cost you more money. It appears you already have a skimmer style inflow pipe, but an Oase CrystalSkim 350 with it's design of outflow flowing down, might help. A wavemaker would be another option.

 

[Wildwhimsy]

Unfortunately, the 250 is a bit under-powered for that tank, especially since I think it's over 22" tall (Topfin perhaps?) and you're using a straight "jet" style pipe. All my suggestions would cost you more money. It appears you already have a skimmer style inflow pipe, but an Oase CrystalSkim 350 with it's design of outflow flowing down, might help. A wavemaker would be another option.

I’m totally willing to spend money so I’d welcome suggestions!

 

[Scaper26]

Is it a little underpowered? Yes. Is it the end of the world, flow-wise? Totally not. You seem to have ample surface agitation and as long as your skimmer is skimming you should be ok. No matter what you do, there will be dead spots in a box of water due to vortices, don’t stress too much about it.