BCOrchidGuy
03-19-2007, 04:36 PM
Okay I'm very frustrated with my SuperSkimmer, some days it fills the collection cup with water for no reason what so ever, other days it just fills with microbubbles and then fills the tank with microbubbles. I'm giving a lot of thought to cutting the thing apart and building a box to go underneath it, I'd pump water into it that has air going in to the pump just before the impeller. I'd have a baffle to direct the water into the tower(column) but allow some water to go underneath it. I could control the water level with a ball valve on the output as well as by controlling the amount of air going into the pump.
My aquarium is a 60 gallon cube and I'd like to get peoples suggestions on what size pump I should use or if the stock RIO 1100 would be adequate.
I know I've seen pictures etc of DIY skimmers that work on the same principle but the search only goes back so far and there are no DIY Skimmer threads that come up.
Doug
My aquarium is a 60 gallon cube and I'd like to get peoples suggestions on what size pump I should use or if the stock RIO 1100 would be adequate.
I know I've seen pictures etc of DIY skimmers that work on the same principle but the search only goes back so far and there are no DIY Skimmer threads that come up.
Doug