How to make a water bottle skimmer

[Carl_in_Florida]

Aviation Electrician. Also a flight mechanic.

 

[phenom5]

okay, so i figured i'd give it a shot since i've got everything i need to make a little water bottle skimmer.

for those of you who have one setup, what kind of break-in time do you see before your skimmer started producing any or good skimmate? i'm still playing with it, trying to get it adjusted. we'll see how it goes, and i'll let everyone know.

 

[Carl_in_Florida]

Keep us posted Phenom. I am gonna wind up doing one of these.

 

[phenom5]

Keep us posted Phenom. I am gonna wind up doing one of these.



i will, too early to tell right now...we'll see how its doing tomorrow.

 

[phenom5]

okay, here's a shot of it in action, day 1. might redesign it, i think it needs to be taller.

 

[KING OF THE REEF]

nice hey i live in florida too. i live in palm beach county i want to do one of these. just need to find the time

 

[Carl_in_Florida]

Here is the before mentioned link of the opposite of this skimmer.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=538638

Carl

 

[clown fanatic]

hey cool i love in pinellas county. imareefer maybe you could frag some stuff and send it to me

 

[Agu]

I'm in Venice, not convenient to most of you Floridians.

Carl, I tried that approach with my 10/10 setup. Bubbles weren't consistant enough.

Phenom,

jmo but water's too high in the bottom bottle. You're probably getting a really wet skimmate. Don't know the break in time because I've had one version or another running in the garage for a couple of months. Best guess would be a couple of days.

Agu

 

[phenom5]

Phenom,

jmo but water's too high in the bottom bottle. You're probably getting a really wet skimmate.

yeah, i shut it down before i left for work, needs to be refined. i'm going to make version 2.0 tomorrow before i go to class...

 

[Agu]

How about just raising the bottle ? I've found setting up the bottle so the bubbles break just before the neck is pretty close to optimum .

Agu

 

[phenom5]

i'm going to make version 2.0 right now. so far i'm at $0.89 for another airstone.:thumbsup: be back with 2.0 in 5 mins.

 

[phenom5]

the saga continues...
here's 2.0, got it running right now, update you in a couple of days.

version 2.0

 

[Carl_in_Florida]

So you don't have to use wooden airstones?

 

[phenom5]

i don't know...whats the difference? i thought an airstone was an airstone...

 

[AJP]

Wood ones make finer bubbles.

 

[Carl_in_Florida]

The wooden ones give you the micro bubbles. but i'm not saying the other won't work.

Carl

 

[phenom5]

hmmm...easy changed out.

 

[clsund]

LOL.

Love it Agu. Great idea.

 

[Agu]

Phenom,

That open top of the collection cup could get messy.

Agu