here is a link to the stones we used http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/iid/9751/cid/2328 We went w/ the ALR230 stones. They work very well and the bubbles are tiny.
Large Airpump Driver Skimmer
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Well it is still working like a champ. Why would it leak goby? If you were to make the tubes run down the inside on this design it would be very difficult to remove the stones and service them. I don't forsee any reason that it would leak, it is built to last. I think that we are going to get a wetneck of some sort in there soon. Last time todd cleaned it the build up in the neck was 1/2" thick.
BeanAnimal
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new pictures please
BeanAnimal
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How are you going to provide a way to hang that many airstones off of a manifold and keep it in position and rigid... and provide for a way to pull it up to service it? The small ID rigid airline is to flimsly and larger pipe would take up to much room. You wold need a step ladder and 18 foot cielings to pull those out on rigid airline.
Draining the skimmer is a easy as...well draining the skimmer. I don't see a leaking problem with this design any more than I see a leaking problem with an acces panel on anything else. It looks designed well and has a gasket.
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Draining the skimmer is a easy as...well draining the skimmer. I don't see a leaking problem with this design any more than I see a leaking problem with an acces panel on anything else. It looks designed well and has a gasket.
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MarkS
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BeanAnimal said:
I've been thinking about this problem for a larger diameter PVC CC skimmer that I'm designing. What I will probably end up doing is making the top 1/2 of the airline inside the skimmer out of Spa Flex and the other 1/2 ridgid PVC. This way the airline will remain in place and you wont need 18' ceilings to service the skimmer.
Here are a couple new shots of the skimmer. It is no problem to drain the skimmer. If he would have wanted it as a external skimmer we would have just put a drain on it to make it easy to pump it all back into the sump. The only thing about it is, is you have to have a very large sump to accomodate it when drained lol since it holds 29 gallons.
The skimmate that comes out of this thing is just disgusting funk.
The skimmate that comes out of this thing is just disgusting funk.
CaptainCoral
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I think I see Elvis. It's got to be the king.
Enter the real Bubble King.
Probably need a Military issue gas mask for cleaning time. Have the Nuke engineers build you a decontamination room to remove ambient skimmate so you don't wipe out the family after cleanings.
Enter the real Bubble King.
Probably need a Military issue gas mask for cleaning time. Have the Nuke engineers build you a decontamination room to remove ambient skimmate so you don't wipe out the family after cleanings.
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tsalter
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Hey bigt that thing is sick. I really love my airpump skimmer as well. if you have the space it is a great way to go. I started throwing ozone into mine this week and it is pully even more crazy junk. nothing like 2' of solid 6" diameter foam.
I run a 1/2 rigid airline down mine to feed the stones and my maifold looks like this one. I went through the wall with a uniseal and then a small 90 on the inside and then to the rigid airline.
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4763&d=1110732525
here is my skimmer build.
it is not nearly as pretty as bigt's but I scavenged parts off of my old becket.
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8722&page=4
I run a 1/2 rigid airline down mine to feed the stones and my maifold looks like this one. I went through the wall with a uniseal and then a small 90 on the inside and then to the rigid airline.
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4763&d=1110732525
here is my skimmer build.
it is not nearly as pretty as bigt's but I scavenged parts off of my old becket.
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8722&page=4
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BeanAnimal
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Mark have you given up on the beckett?
ewwww. the whole neck lookls like it needs cleaned, not just the cup.
Bean
ewwww. the whole neck lookls like it needs cleaned, not just the cup.
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BeanAnimal
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You may be depressed if you find that the power hungry beckett is matched in performance by a monster CC
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just looking at that; what made you make the next so long? if it was shorter wouldnt you have less problems with the skimmate in the neck? or if you raised the water level?
just curious, I want to do a similair idea, but that neck looks like itd be hell to clean. I dont mind skimming pretty wet. Id rather it for the sake of cleanliness.
just curious, I want to do a similair idea, but that neck looks like itd be hell to clean. I dont mind skimming pretty wet. Id rather it for the sake of cleanliness.
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