Canarygirl
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lol, it looks like that arrow is pointing to a manhole cover! :lol:
(First Reef Tank Ever) **** 600gal Display **** 1300gal System
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10136521#post10136521 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bbrantley
Wait a minute... does that offer extend to anyone else? Because I'm pretty sure I can find your tank...
Ben
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ill help u lift it if you let me keep the skimmer?LOL
cbui2
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10136768#post10136768 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bbrantley
I tell you what: instead of putting you through the embarrassment that would, no doubt, result from me showing up at your doorstep, I will post my guess in the form of a picture. Tell me if this looks like your house:
I'll be booking my ticket to your front porch shortly...
Ben
hehe, sorry but no blue tarp around my neighborhood, i have only 16 houses on my street and its a one way. total homes built in subdivision 84 homes for now until phase 2 & 3 starts, which will probably 2010. no need to book ticket:lol:
cbui2
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maybe next time Ben......
now that i look at it again you got me, but its my shop your looking at but off a few houses. my shop is located directly on the corner next to metal building, my truck is park in front of the shop. almost phew, my house is 14miles away hopefully you can find it,
google always have my address wrong on sat...haha next time but you should get a prize anyway finding my place of business.. i will award my triple-stripe damsel :lol: 
cbui2
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i made a mistake, the skimmer return to the sump has 1" pvc surbmerge below water level causing the water from skimmer not to return to sump therefore no water was return to sump and making the skimmer non functional. thanks i will re adjust the air intake again couple days later.
Goodwin9
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Everyone in this hobby is entitled to 1 free mistake. Yours should be an easy fix. Here are a couple of shots of mine. I had to raise the skimmer up a little to be able to get the intake and returns above the sump level. The return from the skimmer empties into the sump above the foam section of the sump, thus eliminating any bubbles going into the sump or refugium sections. Your situation is a little different since your skimmer is a distance from your sump, but it appears from the photos that your skimmer return should be above the top of your sump/refugium.
PS: The "NOG" in the collection cup is from 1 days skimming.
Goodwin9
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I do have 3, the third is locaded below the return line in the second picture. I have the AP1003 which a 4th pump can be added which would make it the 1004. I would think that by submerging the return line in the sump, you would restrict the flow out of the return from the skimmer.
Goodwin9
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It looks like to me that the return from the skimmer is running at least 12 feet, if not further, to the sump in the pictures on the previous page. It appears the the baffle that is pictured in the sump has the return from the skimmer coming in and looks like to me it could be a foot under the water level. If this is the case, if I remember right, water takes the path of least resistance which might make it easier to go out the top of the skimmer, rather than into the sump. Again looking at the pictures, it would seem to me that it is going to be an easy fix to move the line going into the baffle section over to the right and empty it above the foam in the sump.
Where's Bart when we need him to chime in...he must have over slept this morning......
I almost went with the 902 myself until Doug said that it was boarder line whether or not it would handle my tank. Glad I let him talk me into the 1003
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10139858#post10139858 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Goodwin9
PS: The "NOG" in the collection cup is from 1 days skimming.
Is that on your 470g or 210g tank ? What is your bio load like ?
We get easily that much on our medium loaded 380g in 12 hours (ising a different skimmer), which is why I am asking.. Thanks.
Goodwin9
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This skimmer is on my 470, I would guess a medium load, but what do I know? Here is a live view of the tank for your call on the load...
http://dev.dakotareef.com/cam_test/?display=java&host=69.9.224.229&port=8002&width=640&height=480
cbui2
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yeah got the skimmer working just fine and waiting for it to break in. my plans was going with AP1003 but i said why not just get AP1004 and don't worried about upgrading later. i need to ordered the self cleaning head down the line.
spend all morning cleaning out my sump since i used 2 100 micron bag for each overflow and ran carbon on one and phosban in the other, another bad mistake. well water overflows so fast that all the media came out of the bag and into the sump, and was wondering why skimmer was full of carbon nog. i also had tied the bag as tight as possible hanging onto the pvc and that didn't work. so no more bag ever for me just reactor from now on.
spend all morning cleaning out my sump since i used 2 100 micron bag for each overflow and ran carbon on one and phosban in the other, another bad mistake. well water overflows so fast that all the media came out of the bag and into the sump, and was wondering why skimmer was full of carbon nog. i also had tied the bag as tight as possible hanging onto the pvc and that didn't work. so no more bag ever for me just reactor from now on.
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