Wave maker is very important for small aquariums, especially for saltwater tanks, it can balance the flow and create good circulation in the tank, avoid dead spots that can lead to the accumulation of excess organic matter, create water current for the corals and plants, make fish more active.
Hygger 1600GPH frequency conversion aquarium wave make pump, comes with an led digital display controller, its multifunctional, with touch key buttons. You can customize different wave modes, wave speed, wave making watts for each period of a day by changing the last 3 digits on the controller, it will run as what you set automatically.
This is a compact but powerful aquarium wave pump, it supports time setting, the factory default time setting is to divide a day into 5 time intervals: Dawn for 2 hours, Sunrise for 2 hours, Daytime for 4.5 hours, Sunset for 2.5 hours, Night for 13 hours.
You need to set the pump time to your local time at first, then it will run as the preset waves, if you dont like the default setting, you can shift to each period of a day and change the last 3 digits to set wave modes, wave speed, wave making watts.
Here is the factory default setting for 5 time intervals & preset wave codes & explanation:
- Dawn (5:30-7:30): 1312 /dawn, 80% working watts, pulse wave, wave making rate 2-fast
- Sunrise (7:30-9:30): 2413 /sunrise, 100% working watts, pulse wave, wave making rate 3
- Daytime (9:30-14:00): 3413 /daytime, 100% working watts, pulse wave, wave making rate 3
- Sunset (14:00-16:30): 4425 /sunset, 100% working watts, sine wave, wave making rate 5
- Night (16:30-5:30): 5138 /night, 40% working watts, constant speed wave, wave making rate 8-slowest