xCry0x
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Looking for some feedback from people who have experience either with general skimmer mods or specific experience with a maxijet 1200.
I have had a tunze 9002 skimmer for about 5 years and it has never consistently worked. At some point I threw a maxijet 1200 in it because the original pump died.
I recently have gotten a renewed interest in getting my tank going properly and wanted to address my spotty skimmer performance. Before buying a new skimmer I figured I would try to tweak the current one.
I tried the venturi mod here (http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/234714-20g-hexagon/page-3) where you basically drill a hole into the intake and stick a nub of an airline tube connector in there.
This resulted in more or less 0 air being pulled into my pump, barely a murmer of bubbles inside the skimmer.
My question:
1) Is water pressure making this not work? The tunze skimmer is in tank, the maxijet is about 12 inches underwater. In that guide it is a HoB skimmer where the pump is just under the surface.
Part 2...
I was considering doing a airstone skimmer and bought a tetra 40. Since this venturi didn't do jack I connected the airpump to the air intake. Amazingly, this generates what visibly looks like a lot of bubbles.. but nothing is actually going up the neck of the skimmer.
So another more general skimmer question.
2) Why would injecting air from an airpump straight into the maxijet intake not generate an insane amount of bubbles?
I figured I would be overflowing the cup. The original post-pump venturi that comes with the tunze would overflow the cup with water when wide open, confused as to why none of these work. Really want the pre-pump air intake, the stupid factory tunze intake always gets clogged with salt within a week making it a chore to keep the thing functioning at all.
Will probably just give up and buy a reef octopus classic 1000.. just not excited about having to go HoB.
Sorry for super long post, if anyone has feedback it is much appreciated!
I have had a tunze 9002 skimmer for about 5 years and it has never consistently worked. At some point I threw a maxijet 1200 in it because the original pump died.
I recently have gotten a renewed interest in getting my tank going properly and wanted to address my spotty skimmer performance. Before buying a new skimmer I figured I would try to tweak the current one.
I tried the venturi mod here (http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/234714-20g-hexagon/page-3) where you basically drill a hole into the intake and stick a nub of an airline tube connector in there.
This resulted in more or less 0 air being pulled into my pump, barely a murmer of bubbles inside the skimmer.
My question:
1) Is water pressure making this not work? The tunze skimmer is in tank, the maxijet is about 12 inches underwater. In that guide it is a HoB skimmer where the pump is just under the surface.
Part 2...
I was considering doing a airstone skimmer and bought a tetra 40. Since this venturi didn't do jack I connected the airpump to the air intake. Amazingly, this generates what visibly looks like a lot of bubbles.. but nothing is actually going up the neck of the skimmer.
So another more general skimmer question.
2) Why would injecting air from an airpump straight into the maxijet intake not generate an insane amount of bubbles?
I figured I would be overflowing the cup. The original post-pump venturi that comes with the tunze would overflow the cup with water when wide open, confused as to why none of these work. Really want the pre-pump air intake, the stupid factory tunze intake always gets clogged with salt within a week making it a chore to keep the thing functioning at all.
Will probably just give up and buy a reef octopus classic 1000.. just not excited about having to go HoB.
Sorry for super long post, if anyone has feedback it is much appreciated!
