Massive sub pumps or cut into return line for skimmer?

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Originally Posted by Myka

What do you think Steve? About 1500 gph (after head loss and all that) good for that Beckett skimmer?

that should do it. one becket will run fine on 800gph (at the becket)

I have a 1/2 built skimmer in the shop right now that is 42" tall and probably about 15 gal of water in size (9" main body on a box with a 12" colection cup) I was going to do dual backet on it using two maK4's but now that I have had time to think about it I am going to make it in to a recirulating skimmer, using a couple needle wheel pumps and then have a flow of about 3 to 400 gal per hour flowing through it. this way you could easily feed it off the overflow of the tank.

I like Dez's idea of one pump for everything but like he said you need two of the exact same pumps to do that.
personaly I am having a hard time with the set up and how its plummed. do you have a better picture of the right side of your sump. it looks like that is where your "sucking from" and are you returning to the left end chamber with your skimmer? maybe a pic of the sump operating and then a description of whats comming and going from where..

I had a simular problem with my 33 gal sump I made and I had to do a couple designe changes for it to handle the 5000 gph I had going through that.

Steve