DIY protein skimmer

[thincat]

Sooo, you got somewhere for the skimmate to go?

[partypalooza5]

Made a collection cup out of a fish food plastic can thing which drains into another juice bottle. xD It's a pretty ghetto looking device but I think once there's stuff in the water, it'll work pretty good.

[fishmonkey]

and now ffor the next project: DIY RODI unit!

[thincat]

I wouldn't put it against PP5, he would come up with a great ro/di unit.

[fishmonkey]

i agree. hes probably gonna cure cancer or something

[partypalooza5]

Originally Posted by thincat

I wouldn't put it against PP5, he would come up with a great ro/di unit.

xD If I had the right tools, I could probably build a killer unit for not a ton of money.

[mfdrookie516]

Originally Posted by partypalooza5

xD If I had the right tools, I could probably build a killer unit for not a ton of money.

whats wrong with a few apple juice bottles and a water hose? im sure you could figure something out

[partypalooza5]

Originally Posted by mfdrookie516

whats wrong with a few apple juice bottles and a water hose? im sure you could figure something out

Well, last time i checked, apple juice bottles aren't great at holding pressure. XD

I'm pretty sure if I was really motivated to make an RO/DI I totally could. I just don't see a need at this particular time XD.

[Flake]

This is almost as awesome as your ghetto computer

[partypalooza5]

I re-set up the skimmer today, to see if it would help at all now seeing that theres "live" stuff in there. I'll leave it on over night and see what happens.



its producing some pretty good bubbles IMO.

[thincat]

Where did you say that skimmate was going to.

[partypalooza5]

I made a "collection cup" with a drain port, but somehow the plastic split.. (oopsies) so now I made an elbow and elbow "U" type of thing that puts the foam into a container. I take off the horizontal part of the "U" and adjust the skimmer to get a little bit of foam coming into the first elbow. Then replace the rest of the "U" and it skims pretty well.

[thincat]

sounds good...

[partypalooza5]

Update: skimmer seems to skim rather well!

Does anyone know a way to mod the standard "paddle" impeller to be a meshwheel or threadwheel? Something to chop the air up more?

[thincat]

Try this link:
DIY Thread Wheel

[fishmonkey]

haha PP, doing this would save me loads of $, but i think i would need to make one a LOT bigger, for what i have planned, if you know what i mean...

[partypalooza5]

Update: (I know this is somewhat old and irrelevent...) I did a recirc. type of mod to the skimmer and made a better collection cup. I'm test running it tonight to see what it does, and if it works, I'll post pics.