Trouble Dialing in Wavebox - New Aquascaping the Issue?

[tanglovers]

We moved this past fall and redid our tank aquascaping. Since our move, I have not been able to get our Wavebox dialed back in. The tank is a 220 (72x24x30). The wavebox is I would guess about 2.5 years old and has always been well maintained cleaned every 3-4 months routinely.

We redid our aquascaping after our move and now have two large rock mounds that are built up and touching the sides of the tank, this is considerable different then the previous formation which was basically a center rock mound with the sides open.

Does the aquascaping in a tank effect the performance of the wavebox? Is the new rock formations making it so I can not balance the waves bouncing back and fourth?

Before the move I was getting a very nice wave motion of about 1.5 inches.

Any suggestions/ideas would be great.

Thanks,
Scott

[rvitko]

Yes, it does. A customer reported the same problem about 6 months ago and after some testing I found that the center island is ideal and rocks touching the wall on the far side, especially if the outflow of the wavebox hits them and not the glass, does reduce the wave height.