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Im definitely taking a couple of ideas from this thread. Especially the PVC reactors.
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I finnaly got tired of adjusting my skimmer because of evaporation, so I made this skimmer chamber out of a bucket. It overflows into the sump, but goes through some filter floss and then a nice bag of carbon. The little brown hose is the return from a little reactor filled with a nitrate remover, going back for another quick carbon rinse. There is no skimate, because this is right after it was turned on after being cleaned.
Neptangelo
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The only thing missing is an old half eaten box of pizza and some laundry detergent.
alphaferret
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He pulls out the trump hand! Nice set up-love the floss basket. This is why my main tank is down in the baesment. It is an experiment not a piece of art! But close!
Neptangelo
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My rig is so wedged in I cant get the camera back there but I have a Home Depot bucket doing the same thing...
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Dave.....
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I actually just built the bucket skimmer chamber yesterday, thats why the room looks like a disaster, it was the second chamber I made in 3 days, so i never cleaned up the first mess before making the second, you know how it is. I gotta say though, after only one day my skimmer is already working better than it did before. I definitely got the inspiration to build my own from this thread. I almost bought a chambered sump, but all of them were too long, you can see I have space restrictions, and my current sump is a 20high, which is too deep for the skimmer. Anyways, thanks for the top 3 vote, and the pizza box comment made me laugh out loud.
jbird69
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Tunze wave makers arent allowed in this thread, Unless you do something really weird to one :smokin: A quick comment on the concept... If you suddenly dump a mass of water into a tank that is allready ripping with lots of flow, your gonna get a sudden chaotic flow that can only benefit corals. And it will absolutely send a surge across the tank and rebound back again.
Can you imagine how easy and effective something like this can be on a big frag tank? On a larger scale of coarse. I was thinking of a dumpbucket that pours into a raceway and makes a longer, slower, more latteral spill into the tank...cheap and effective.
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yeah, the surge is a great tool for stirring up dead zones. At Atalantis Marine World, they have a 20k gallon reef, which utilizes a 500gallon surge every three minutes, and you can definitly see it reach all the low and tucked away corners of the tank. I am more in favor of a surge devise than a wavebox.
