show me your skimmers!!!!!!
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CaptiveReef
LED FULL SPECTRUM REEFER
DIY CaptiveReef Skimmer
DIY CaptiveReef Skimmer
Okay here is a design I came up with, you can't see the bubbles while it is operation, but it pulls out alot of gunk.
CaptiveReef
DIY CaptiveReef Skimmer
Okay here is a design I came up with, you can't see the bubbles while it is operation, but it pulls out alot of gunk.
CaptiveReef
tom obrecht
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My Deltec AP 902
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Lunchbucket
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zapa - holy nutz!!! that is some NASTY stuff!!
Lunchbucket
Lunchbucket
Alaskan Reefer
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Here's my beastie, a six week old Euroreef CS-180. Three days worth of goo, competing against chaetomorpha and yes bioballs for minimal bioload in a 125 (powder blue, ocellaris, royal gramma, orange spot goby, six line wrasse -- all small). I cycled it on the fly (timing on move didn't work out right, so I left in bioballs just to be safe) with cooked LR and dry sand, and throughout the cycle I could barely detect anything with Salifert kits. This thing is a horse... And yes, the nog smells very, very bad...
crab0000
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I love the Deltec! I think the bubbles are slighty smaller than they were with the ER. Also, my tank temp dropped two to three degrees with only changing the skimmer and I have more PE on my SPS. It has been incredibly easy to adjust as well. Here is a link to my thread in the Deltec forum http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=761793 . It gives a few more details. Oh yeah, Lunchbucket has come over to the dark side and has a Deltec on order
.Steve
joefish
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6823201#post6823201 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crab0000
I love the Deltec! I think the bubbles are slighty smaller than they were with the ER. Also, my tank temp dropped two to three degrees with only changing the skimmer and I have more PE on my SPS. It has been incredibly easy to adjust as well. Here is a link to my thread in the Deltec forum http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=761793 . It gives a few more details. Oh yeah, Lunchbucket has come over to the dark side and has a Deltec on order
Steve
:lol:
I've never been a fan of ER . I think they are way over rated . But this deltec has given me new faith in Needle wheel skimmers again .
Off to the link now .
crab0000
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I was hesitant to spend that much on a skimmer, but I am glad I did now. Check out this thread http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=757846 for some nice pics of nog (and some other Deltec equipment).
uscgbeachbum
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zapata...so is the air pump directly connected to the inlet of the OR? If I understand correctly, you are forcing air into it, similar to Spazz's Dart, rather than letting air be sucked in.
zapata41
In Memoriam
well when i tested the venturi on the OR in my salt mixing container the venturi pulled in 15lpm of air, i usually bleed off about 3lpm of the air that drives my air diffusers, so i simply adjusted the blled screw to bleed off 15lpm and hooked the venturi tube to the bleed valve, so basically i am only adding like 3lpm more air to the skimmer, underdriving the air diffusers a tad and feeding the the NW with the bled off air and getting smaller bubbles and way less turbulent and foamier foam head.
Tim
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