I-Tech Skimmer Club .
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Duality
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Bump any i-Tech users still out there?
This skimmer is my still all time favorite skimmer. I've tried BK and the itech200 still out competes it.
So a bit of back story. After going through 3 hydrofoamer motor blocks. I switched over to a skimz dc 5000. I also did a few mods to the 200 as well had to make the inlet holes big enough for 1" pvc and made the drain pipe down draft style. What I did is documented in earlier post on this thread.
I'm running an itech200 on a 150gallon. I originally had the pump at half power and it was over skimming the tank where I was starving sps. Now I'm running the pump at it's lowest setting and it's skimming perfectly.
The skimmer gives me a lot of opportunity to add a whole lot more fish.
This skimmer is my still all time favorite skimmer. I've tried BK and the itech200 still out competes it.
So a bit of back story. After going through 3 hydrofoamer motor blocks. I switched over to a skimz dc 5000. I also did a few mods to the 200 as well had to make the inlet holes big enough for 1" pvc and made the drain pipe down draft style. What I did is documented in earlier post on this thread.
I'm running an itech200 on a 150gallon. I originally had the pump at half power and it was over skimming the tank where I was starving sps. Now I'm running the pump at it's lowest setting and it's skimming perfectly.
The skimmer gives me a lot of opportunity to add a whole lot more fish.
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moondoggy4
Team RC
Wow that is a huge skimmer, is that PAPA I-Tech I see, I still have my 200.
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moondoggy4
Team RC
I have the tunze 9420,my first pump was the Sicce 2500. It will go in my upgrade 225 gallon tank that is sitting in my garage and all of the equipment that I purchased for this tank, the only thing I need is a Ghost Overflow.
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Another modification on my I-tech 200. I made a manual neck cleaner
https://youtu.be/WXqDIHjl6vw
So my itech has the carbon lid witch made this modification easier. Warning for the faint of heart I did have to cut pieces out of the original lid.
Another thing that made this mod possible is that I had a piece of acrylic tube that fit perfectly inside the part that's over the neck. Idk is it called the bubble pop shield? I took the tube a capped one side. Then added an arm with a rubber squeegee.
I then cut a hole in the lid so that the tube could pass freely through the lid if I took the carbon lid off. I then made a 2.5"X.5" circle spacer that I glued to the top of the swabbie lid. I then made a 2.5" circle hole in the carbon lid
The spacer and swabbie lid fit perfectly inside the original rid.
I than made a extra large washer out of 1/8" acrylic. This washer stops the swabbie lid from falling on top of the skimmer neck.
Then I took the piece that I cut out of the original lid and cleaned it up and made it as the turn handle
This is a side view
So if you noticed an acrylic pin coming out of the swabbie lid it was added after I found out that the nylon bolt would unthread and loosen when I would spin the lid backwards. Oops
https://youtu.be/WXqDIHjl6vw
So my itech has the carbon lid witch made this modification easier. Warning for the faint of heart I did have to cut pieces out of the original lid.
Another thing that made this mod possible is that I had a piece of acrylic tube that fit perfectly inside the part that's over the neck. Idk is it called the bubble pop shield? I took the tube a capped one side. Then added an arm with a rubber squeegee.
I then cut a hole in the lid so that the tube could pass freely through the lid if I took the carbon lid off. I then made a 2.5"X.5" circle spacer that I glued to the top of the swabbie lid. I then made a 2.5" circle hole in the carbon lid
The spacer and swabbie lid fit perfectly inside the original rid.
I than made a extra large washer out of 1/8" acrylic. This washer stops the swabbie lid from falling on top of the skimmer neck.
Then I took the piece that I cut out of the original lid and cleaned it up and made it as the turn handle
This is a side view
So if you noticed an acrylic pin coming out of the swabbie lid it was added after I found out that the nylon bolt would unthread and loosen when I would spin the lid backwards. Oops
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