New tank transfer!

[Jmkb02]

Not cool! Bummer about everything going bad bro. Hope it all works out with max. Sorry to hear it.

 

[Dimdim]

Thanks, im going to purchase a skimmer. Going with either the cad lights pipeless skimmer or the reef octopus bh 300 dual

 

[Dimdim]

Might buy both. Just to see which works better or may run both lol

 

[Grizz]

You can get a nice skimmer for $ 380 and have one pump to power One cup to clean One.... you get the picture

 

[Dimdim]

Can i get a return pump that will power a skimmer and my return line?

 

[Grizz]

That DC pump that i linked to earlier should work you'll need to put valves on it so you can adjust the flows. Never restrict the intake just the output.

 

[Dimdim]

Does it have a 1 inch return diameter?

 

[Grizz]

Yes it does 1in in/out
http://www.aquacave.com/Speedwave-DC-10000-2640-gph-Controllable-Water-Pump-P3964.aspx

 

[Dimdim]

What about the 5000? Does it have a 1 inch as well?

 

[Grizz]

Im not sure i bought the 10k because it has 6 speeds and can be run as low as 840 gph I run mine wide open hooked to a SWCD on a closed loop It's a good size pump but you cant hear it run Im tempted to buy another as a return on my sump

 

[Dimdim]

Will be buying a skimmer first, i managed to get my pump back together. With some good old crazy glue. The pump is only a year and a half. So it should hold up untill after i get my skimmer. Going with the marineland 300.

 

[Dimdim]

Just got a coralife 125 super skimmer and its rockin!

 

[jjamontan]

I used the 65 for a year and a half it did great. The problems I had with it is that it would for no reason overflow and there is a flow valve on the tube coming off of the pump that would pop off. I did pull out some mud from my tank.

 

[Dimdim]

Its essentially the only protein skimmer that is built to fit perfectly snug within my sump, im also still tumbling cheato in the skimmer pump section! Works well! I may plumb a seperate refugium into my stand, or maybe a wall mounted display fuge over the tank

 

[Jmkb02]

I run a coralife ss125 and it works great. No problems ever and I don't have to constantly adjust it like others I've had.

 

[Dimdim]

heres some pics of everything! let me know what you think!

 

[Dimdim]

Last pic is my future qt. just waiting on a waterchange day to fill er up and use hypo salinity for incoming fish. And my anenome is huge! Almost the span of a basketball now.

 

[mr_X]

That skimmer is running pretty wet, if you have the bubbles adjusted all the way to the top of the neck. I wouldn't set it any wetter than that.

 

[Dimdim]

Does the skimmate need to be pushed to thetop of the cup and over? If i dry skim it doesnt push much over the edge if at all, see wherethe top of the green is? Thats the dry skim mark

 

[mr_X]

At the height you have it at, it should be forcing bubbles over. If it's simply stopping at the very top and not coming over, turn it up a little. Skimming wet, the skimmate would look like green water, where as dry would look black.

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