muppet
Misanthrope
my options are either to put it directly after my fuge, or have no skimmer at all?
I don't want to lose a huge chunk of my copepods to the skimmer. I'm having trouble right now establishing a population at all (may need to reduce the flow in my fuge somehow).
I bought this whole setup used from another local reefer who had the sump setup with bioballs in the first chamber and the skimmer/return in the second. I replaced the bioballs with a reverse light cycle fuge and so far the return section is empty except for the return pump.
What if I position the return pump so that the intake is directly at the "exit" of the fuge, before the skimmer? Will that defeat the purpose of the skimmer?
Right now my chaeto seems to be doing a pretty good job of keeping the water clean, but I am noticing a bit of a film just beginning to form on the surface of the return section of my sump. There's no film on my DT because I have the return creating some massive ripples up there.
I don't want to lose a huge chunk of my copepods to the skimmer. I'm having trouble right now establishing a population at all (may need to reduce the flow in my fuge somehow).
I bought this whole setup used from another local reefer who had the sump setup with bioballs in the first chamber and the skimmer/return in the second. I replaced the bioballs with a reverse light cycle fuge and so far the return section is empty except for the return pump.
What if I position the return pump so that the intake is directly at the "exit" of the fuge, before the skimmer? Will that defeat the purpose of the skimmer?
Right now my chaeto seems to be doing a pretty good job of keeping the water clean, but I am noticing a bit of a film just beginning to form on the surface of the return section of my sump. There's no film on my DT because I have the return creating some massive ripples up there.
The fuge is more important to me than the skimmer.
