Though I have not had my current mazzei-based skimmer overflow, I did have it happen on a few occasions with the HSA-1000. I would personally not run any skimmer to an external reservoir without some kind of shut off. The MTC container is nice with a ping pong ball mechanical shut off. Avast makes one with a pressure switch. You can also use a regular reed style float switch with a controller like apex.
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goreef170
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If you look at my pic above, you will see the waste container in the sump just in case of a overflow. I have it raised up with pvc and egg crate.
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Use a water level sensor on the bucket, if it fills, activate the sensor, then apex shut down skimmer
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I use a davy jones locker from Avast. Air vent in the middle with a carbon chamber on top helps with odor.
It came with a piggy back plug pressure switch but changed it to one I can plug into my apex. You can buy that piggy back plug pressure switcg separate or from Tsunami AT1 which I have several of as well. You can also find the same lid to go on top of a 5g bucket at home depot.
I also installed a horizontal float switch to my apex. This gives me an alert the bucket is almost full. It also reduces the speed of my skimmer's pump which is apex controllable. I usually dump my bucket before it gets that far so I do that programing expecting its probably foaming and running really wet for some reason.
Then the pressure switch is a little higher and will tell the Apex to alert me and shut down my skimmer.
For dumping the contents I put a mj1200 in there and have a 1/2" tube run up, over, and down to a floor drain in the next room. I just flip the outlet its plugged into on from my apex and then switch it right off and the siphon it creates empties it out until the siphon is broken once the bucket is drained.
It came with a piggy back plug pressure switch but changed it to one I can plug into my apex. You can buy that piggy back plug pressure switcg separate or from Tsunami AT1 which I have several of as well. You can also find the same lid to go on top of a 5g bucket at home depot.
I also installed a horizontal float switch to my apex. This gives me an alert the bucket is almost full. It also reduces the speed of my skimmer's pump which is apex controllable. I usually dump my bucket before it gets that far so I do that programing expecting its probably foaming and running really wet for some reason.
Then the pressure switch is a little higher and will tell the Apex to alert me and shut down my skimmer.
For dumping the contents I put a mj1200 in there and have a 1/2" tube run up, over, and down to a floor drain in the next room. I just flip the outlet its plugged into on from my apex and then switch it right off and the siphon it creates empties it out until the siphon is broken once the bucket is drained.
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This is my skimmer with the mag24. Still adjusting it, as i had a chemi clean treatment to erradicate ciano, so, yesterday I made a 20% waterchange and I put the skimmer to work. The black tape show the water level at this moment and the air valve is open at the same way as I used it with the mag 12.
goreef170
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This is my skimmer with the mag24. Still adjusting it, as i had a chemi clean treatment to erradicate ciano, so, yesterday I made a 20% waterchange and I put the skimmer to work. The black tape show the water level at this moment and the air valve is open at the same way as I used it with the mag 12.
Thanks for Sharing :thumbsup:
Keep us updated on the mag 24
goreef170
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This is my skimmer with the mag24. Still adjusting it, as i had a chemi clean treatment to erradicate ciano, so, yesterday I made a 20% waterchange and I put the skimmer to work. The black tape show the water level at this moment and the air valve is open at the same way as I used it with the mag 12.
Reef Reactor, When you say you have the Air Valve open. is this a separate control to adjust the amount of air you are letting in ?
On my MVX Model, there is no control for air valve...
Keith
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Yes, as you can see on the picture on the top of the skimmer there is a white valve with a blue part. If you open it more, more air is sucked, but at the same time, if more air is going on the valve, you can get bigger bubbles, so, you need to control the level of air that valve get to get more air, but small size bubbles.
In my case, with the air the mag12 got, I was getting very fine bubbles. When I changed the pump to mag24, I expected to get more air but with bigger bubbles. I got more air, but same fine size, so I did not adjusted the valve.
When I arrive home later, I will get a picture of the valve for you.
I hope to make you understand this with the explanation as It can be confuse to explain.
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goreef170
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No Problem Reef Reactor....I understand what you are saying...We just have different skimmer set ups....I'm sure both types work very well. Appreciate your responses....:beer:
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Here you have the picture of the air valve.
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goreef170
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Here you have the picture of the air valve.
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Thanks for the pic !
Once you have it dialed in...isn't it set it and forget it ?
Wonder why Jeff has that on some models and not all models ?
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Yes about set and forget it. In my case, as I changed to a bigger pump I am still dial it. About valves, all the becketts need it, but not on venturis.
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Reef Reactor
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On which skimmer? Any picture? It is not complicated
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Reef Reactor
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Do you already have the beckett valves? If you can get this model, will be very easy.
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I got it few years ago on a site called coral nuggets or something like that. Site dissapear some years ago and I want to find more beckets like this one. I heard this can be find it on another site, but never found them. If someone knows where to get it, please let us know.
I sold one like 5 years ago, my mistake
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Here you can see how much air my beckett can suck with the air valve totally open with a Mag 24 pump.
https://youtu.be/edPri4n1Qao
https://youtu.be/edPri4n1Qao
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