Reeflo/Sequence Skimmer Club

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14439351#post14439351 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FishTruck
My skimmer does the opposite when I clean it too thouroughly.

I get nothing for about three days (seven if I really clean it like brand new clean - not recommended), then, back to normal.

I guess you know you are broken in when you get consistent skimmate.

Now, I just rinse the neck and cup with warm water and do a single wipe with a paper towel. This does not interrupt skimmate production.

You adjust for dry or wet skimmate by raising and lowering the water column. Usually, by dialing up / down the resistance on the outflow. If you push the column up, you will get wetter (and more) skimmate. If you push it way up, water will start pouring out of the skimmer and you can do a water change this way (see thread of the month).

I dont even bother turning the skimmer off when cleaning the neck and collection cup.. I take the lid off and rinse it and then take a sponge and reach down the neck of the skimmer and pull up against the sides all the way around.. smear the thick skimmate off on the edge so it falls into the collection cup, rinse the sponge when it gets clogged in the skimmer. Sop up a bunch of clean skimmer water from down inside and then swish that around in collection cup and the rest runs down into the collection bucket via the collection cups drain. whole process takes less than two minutes and the skimmer doesnt miss a beat. It sure is nice to have neck that can easily be reached down into
 
I thought I'd post a pic of my two Orca 250 PROs doin' their thing:

Skimmers-Working.jpg


You can see that both skimmers are pulling exactly the same amount of gunk - and a lot of gunk it is :D :

This is important. Some of you may have read the thread I started a while back about the advantages/disadvantages of using two skimmers simultaneously. Many were of the opinion that, if you run two skimmers at once, one skimmer will "shut down" the other - making the use of two skimmers redundant. These pics prove, once and for all :cool:, that two skimmer work together just fine. They do exactly what was intended - get the gunk out faster than just one skimmer could.
 
Awesome job. I never understood why two wouldn't work together, but as you point out, the pics prove it works just fine.
 
Hi, noticed in the pic that the collection cups are different, do you know which is the current version of the "pro series" and which one do you prefer?

Mark

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14454531#post14454531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
I thought I'd post a pic of my two Orca 250 PROs doin' their thing:

Skimmers-Working.jpg


You can see that both skimmers are pulling exactly the same amount of gunk - and a lot of gunk it is :D :

This is important. Some of you may have read the thread I started a while back about the advantages/disadvantages of using two skimmers simultaneously. Many were of the opinion that, if you run two skimmers at once, one skimmer will "shut down" the other - making the use of two skimmers redundant. These pics prove, once and for all :cool:, that two skimmer work together just fine. They do exactly what was intended - get the gunk out faster than just one skimmer could.
 
Neither of the two is the current model, which has 10 approx. 1/4" holes spaced evenly around the top of the cover and no crown (the acrylic ring attached to the cover).

To be honest, I've never been able to tell any difference in performance between a cover with a crown and one without.
 
what is the best air intake mod for the 250?

the venturi keeps getting clogged alittle and makes the pump run hotter I take a bottle of r/o water and let it suck in the air tube and in no time it runs cooler
 
I have a silly question. Does the motor mount in any way to the plastic foot or is it suppose to just sit on it. Thanks in advance.
 
I just re-did my plumbing (is it ever NOT a nightmare?) today so I can feed the skimmer (Reeflo 250) from my drain. Trying to figure out about what gph is feeding it.

If you have a 250, where is your water level with the dart off? And approx. what gph are you running through it?
 
Mine is at the flange where the cup meets the body and I am running a mag 5 wide open. My outlet pipe is probably 75 to 80% closed.
 
Actually, where is your level if the dart is off and the drain line to 'open'? Think that would give me a better idea.

Mine is right in the middle of the REEFLO sticker on the side, about an inch below the transition to the neck.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14483828#post14483828 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by klasiksb
Actually, where is your level if the dart is off and the drain line to 'open'? Think that would give me a better idea.

Mine is right in the middle of the REEFLO sticker on the side, about an inch below the transition to the neck.
Both of mine are about 1/4" above the top edge of the Reeflo sticker at the "Open" position.
 
Checking in since I'm in the club now.
Just put a 250 on my new 5' round tank

Here is a pic when we were doing the freshwater testing of the system. We dumped a cup of salt in just to see it run and it pulled gunk in less than 15 minutes!

scum.jpg


It's been running full on for about a week and pulling well. Very pleased so far. Will post some pics in coming days, it's got an amazing amount of foam.
 
I seem to have problems keeping my feed water level constant.

I make slight turns of the open/closed pipe but it seems to just rise to quickly or it will slowly rise and then fall down again.

I try and set it at the flange and then I will leave for a few minutes to see if it will hold and it always seems to drop back down to the reeflo sticker area.

I am using a beacket waterfall pump from Home Depot that is about 800 gph with about 4-5 feet of head pressure.

I was thinking that maybe I need a pressure rated pump, but if some of you are feeding this thing from your overflow then there is no way that I need that.

Do any of you guys have problems with the feed level. Thanks
 
pretty odd, they must have made some changes that's the way it came out of the (huge) box it was shipped in from the distributor.
Any idea's as to what impact the different number of holes is likely to have on the performance?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14652614#post14652614 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mark0933
Mine looks different from yours too, mine has 4 x 1/4" holes in the top.

Mark

The same here ...
 
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