johnkristie
Aquarium Advice Freak
I just recently purchased a Turboflotor 1000 skimmer. I bought the Ocean Runner 2700 pump upgrade to go with it instead of the Rio. Has anyone else had problems setting this up to work or is it just my stupidity? The instructions are horrible! The pump has one of those needle wheels inside, which IMO seems to me not to provide enough flow. I set it up in my kitchen sink first to see how it works and the skimmer only produces extremely large bubbles and only fills the skimmer reaction chamber with water about half way. The intake for the pump recirculates some water from inside the skimmer and also takes new water from outside (kind of a dual intake), but most of the water seems to be drawn from inside the skimmer rather than the external source. I can't feel any suction from the external intake pipe. What am I doing wrong?? :?