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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10103879#post10103879 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hoyta
I'm a little lsot on how to do it- I've done it before, but not on the pinwheel versions... Any help? I guess I could shave some of the knobs down...
any help would be nice
I've never done it either. I am VERY happy with the stock performance of my eheim 1262.
However, there is a thread in the DIY forum called "meshmod genx 4100 friggen rocks".... or something to that affect.
Lots of info there.
Jim
ER 6-1
ER 6-1
Hi All --
Just bought a used ER 6-1. I'm just getting my tank started, so just added salt and sand - nothing living yet. Anyway I was wondering if some of the ER pros could help me with my skimmer.
Out of the box everything looked ok, excpet some missing plumming parts. I had some extra 1.5 PVC laying around so I put togher the Gate-mod except the Gate b/c none of the local stores had one. I had it up-runnimg as descripbed, (in sump - 8-10 inched of water.) Everything looked OK the entrie main shaft was screaming with bubbles. However nothing was ever reaching the cup. I should have been making some skim mate in 24 hours, as the debreis from the sand..etc.. Also woth nothing the the air line didnt have any soft of setting controls, so the air was was wide-open.
That brings me to today. I made anther trip to lowes, and they had a ball value which I hadent see at any other store. It was very easy to move all PVC, so I figured "what the heck" bought it, dry fitted everything, then glue, waited, and turned the switch today. The bubbles immediatly went to the top, filled the cup within 2 minutes, and stated overflowing. No big deal b/c I'm running in-sump. I verified that the ball value was 100% open. I knew it was open b/c when I closed the valve it only made the sutuaion worse. I was able to stuff some tissue papper in the air line to constrict the air flow, which seemed to bring the water level to very top of the cup, but now my sump is complely filled with mico-bubbles.
Any thought or help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Sorry for any spelling . grammer I'm in a bit if a hurry (still messing with the tank)
One more note. I drilled the cup, to put in a auto drain, not sure if that would make any differece, but it sure has come in handy while tunning the wild skimmer. I just pointed the return hose back into the sump.
Thanks
-dg
ER 6-1
Hi All --
Just bought a used ER 6-1. I'm just getting my tank started, so just added salt and sand - nothing living yet. Anyway I was wondering if some of the ER pros could help me with my skimmer.
Out of the box everything looked ok, excpet some missing plumming parts. I had some extra 1.5 PVC laying around so I put togher the Gate-mod except the Gate b/c none of the local stores had one. I had it up-runnimg as descripbed, (in sump - 8-10 inched of water.) Everything looked OK the entrie main shaft was screaming with bubbles. However nothing was ever reaching the cup. I should have been making some skim mate in 24 hours, as the debreis from the sand..etc.. Also woth nothing the the air line didnt have any soft of setting controls, so the air was was wide-open.
That brings me to today. I made anther trip to lowes, and they had a ball value which I hadent see at any other store. It was very easy to move all PVC, so I figured "what the heck" bought it, dry fitted everything, then glue, waited, and turned the switch today. The bubbles immediatly went to the top, filled the cup within 2 minutes, and stated overflowing. No big deal b/c I'm running in-sump. I verified that the ball value was 100% open. I knew it was open b/c when I closed the valve it only made the sutuaion worse. I was able to stuff some tissue papper in the air line to constrict the air flow, which seemed to bring the water level to very top of the cup, but now my sump is complely filled with mico-bubbles.
Any thought or help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Sorry for any spelling . grammer I'm in a bit if a hurry (still messing with the tank)
One more note. I drilled the cup, to put in a auto drain, not sure if that would make any differece, but it sure has come in handy while tunning the wild skimmer. I just pointed the return hose back into the sump.
Thanks
-dg
Just another note, after some reading on posessed skimmers, I decided to run some carbon. Maybe some sort of solvant, or detergant made it's want into the tank. The towl I had been using all day smelt very downy fresh. Also I didnt rinse any of the pipes/fillting I used. Not sure....
-dg
-dg
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bingo
I think you will get it dialed in after that stuff wares off. But it does sound like you could use an airline control valve.
Doubledown
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Is it better to control the air input with the control valve or the water level with the wedge pipe (on the new RS180 and RS250)?
I thought the idea with skimming was to get as much air mixing with the water to pull out more junk. Is that not correct?
EuroReef Tec1
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That is true, but you have to find a medium so your skimmer doesnt over flow do to chemistry problems, or any other unforseen problems like he has. If your skimmer is overflowing it isn't doing anything.
Doubledown
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Should I be looking for a happy medium then? Using both to really fine-tune the skimmer to my tank?
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oh yes
Doubledown
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I was told the max water level should be the top of the elbow on the pump outlet.
hahnmeister
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Can someone tell me the ID of the restrction on the intake venturi for the eheim 1262's?
NewSchool04
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How high is that? Anyone?
Also, I'm running two small ER's on my 180 now, two CS5-2's. These things just crush it and I brought them over when I upgraded a couple of months ago.
Will a RC135 or 180 series really skim that much better than these two combined?
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