First off, I'd like to thank everyone on this list and that other
unmentionable bboard for all their great information. I've been a lurker
on this bboard since it's inception and a lurker "over there" for over
a year. All that info helped me setup and run a 5 gallon nano reef for
a year and now the 75 gallon mini reef is up and running.
It's time to join in the discourse now though, 'cause I can't seem
to get my ReefDevil III skimmer working properly.
Space is tight under the tank, but I wanted to keep the skimmer outside
the sump for easy access and cleaning. The only way it fit was to put
a street-ell (right angle bend for tight spaces) on the output of the
skimmer, then fit that to a bulkhead in the sump, with a gate valve
inside the sump. That way the skimmer could sit parallel to the sump
and just barely fit inside the stand.
After 4 weeks of fiddling, the skimmer still isn't producing dry foam
with any reliablility, and the driving pump (Rio 3100) has to be
throttled down to less than 1/3 (gate valve between pump and skimmer)
to keep it from overflowing with wet foam.
Would a right angle on the output of a ReefDevil produce enough back
pressure to keep it from producing dry foam? The output of the
skimmer is above the water level in the sump to avoid that
backpressure problem, but it didn't occur to me at the time that the
right angle itself would be a problem.
Any thoughts? Does anyone else have a setup like this?
I'll probably cap off the bulkhead and put the skimmer inside the
sump, but it'd be great if someone could confirm this theory before
a pain-in-the-butt sump reconstruction.
Thanks-
Dirk
unmentionable bboard for all their great information. I've been a lurker
on this bboard since it's inception and a lurker "over there" for over
a year. All that info helped me setup and run a 5 gallon nano reef for
a year and now the 75 gallon mini reef is up and running.
It's time to join in the discourse now though, 'cause I can't seem
to get my ReefDevil III skimmer working properly.
Space is tight under the tank, but I wanted to keep the skimmer outside
the sump for easy access and cleaning. The only way it fit was to put
a street-ell (right angle bend for tight spaces) on the output of the
skimmer, then fit that to a bulkhead in the sump, with a gate valve
inside the sump. That way the skimmer could sit parallel to the sump
and just barely fit inside the stand.
After 4 weeks of fiddling, the skimmer still isn't producing dry foam
with any reliablility, and the driving pump (Rio 3100) has to be
throttled down to less than 1/3 (gate valve between pump and skimmer)
to keep it from overflowing with wet foam.
Would a right angle on the output of a ReefDevil produce enough back
pressure to keep it from producing dry foam? The output of the
skimmer is above the water level in the sump to avoid that
backpressure problem, but it didn't occur to me at the time that the
right angle itself would be a problem.
Any thoughts? Does anyone else have a setup like this?
I'll probably cap off the bulkhead and put the skimmer inside the
sump, but it'd be great if someone could confirm this theory before
a pain-in-the-butt sump reconstruction.
Thanks-
Dirk