Euroreef CS12-2 under a 180/210/220???

[dahenley]

You can plumb it that way or like the octo extreme Skimmers do. Either will work.
Secondly. A recirc Skimmer doesn't have head pressure. Its not trying to force water up a bigger column of water. It just has to pump air. So you will get a lot more air entering the Skimmer. So in turn you will get a better more efficient Skimmer. Usually if you have two Skimmers side by side with the same body and height with only one pump. You will increase your Skimmer handling ability by 50-100 gal.
I hope that helps?

 

[WDLV]

well, you would have to drill the skimmer body for sure....

you just take the venture off your skimmer, and take it to HD or Lowes. then you get a 45 and a 90 that will fit over the venture. and a piece of PVC to go with it.

you glue the 45 to the venture and the 90 to the 45. then you stick a piece of pipe through the hole you will drill and your done. (you need to buy a "uni seal" that will fit the pipe size and drill the right hole for the uni-seal.

others may give you better ways, but thats the jist of it.

yea, that's pretty much it..... you just need to plumb the intake on the pump as well as out-take to push & pull water from the skimmer body. The intake is on the bottom (OEM hole or you can drill new holes) & the hole that would need to be drilled would be above that. After you get the parts glued together you can determine where you need to drill.

You can do this with all pumps or just one. If one you will half the flow of fresh/dirty water into the tank so dwell time will go up. If you do this to both pumps then you need to get another feed pump or plumb it from the tanks drain (must eliminate bubbles in the water) which is the best but not always the easiest.

Totally understand about not wanting to drill........

Check out Reef Dynamic's website, you can see pics there of their RC skimmers in RC mode, I think the RC-350 is the biggest skimmer they have pics of now

I concur.