skimmer options????

[PL-Reef]

i have a 24g aqua-pod, no extra sump, just stock sump in the rear of the tank. I know I don't have much room to work with, so I am looking for is a skimmer that will fit in the rear and will not interfear with my hood (so I may still close it) Any suggestions are welcomed. I have considered doing an out of tank skimmer and connecting it to through the back of the tank to the sump via drilling, has anyone done this approach before? I looked into the fission skimmer but have yet to hear a good review of it, I have heard some say that aqua c is coming out with one, any word if that will sit in the sump of my aquapod? Thanks for any help you can give me in advance.

Jas'

 

[Salty Brother]

you could try a ccs 65, I really like my 125, pulls out a lot of crap

 

[PL-Reef]

will that fit in the sump? or will it need to be plunbed through the back side?

 

[Salty Brother]

it matters the size of the sump, I fit my ccs 125 in a 15gal sump

 

[schristi69]

Salty, read the guys post. Since it is obvious you know nothing about the specs of the Aquapod, why offer a solution that has nothing to do with the problem? A css will not fit in the Aquapods sump area. I am trying to come up with a solution to this same problem. Everyones pat answer is to hang a CSS or Remora on the back. Great solution EXCEPT if you want to keep the hood....which is the main reason a lot of us bought the da*n things. The two main solutions I can come up with is

1. Drill the back and put in bulkheads and run an external sump. Then you run into all of the problems of needing a controller to shut things down to prevent overflows, empty sump/pump burnout, suction sound, yadda yadda yadda.

2. Custom engineer something that will fit. I am looking at maybe a counter current skimmer that might work.

The main issue is the space allowed. It would have been nice if the mfgr had made the sump area larger and built in a skimmer or designed the lid so you could hang something on the back. It looks like their target was for the freshwater crowd considering the filter system they give you.

 

[Salty Brother]

sorry, that i am not familiar with the aquapod system, but first of all i asked how big the sump was, and I never got a response, and I believe that he said "any suggestions welcome", so I gave him one recommending the skimmer that I have.

 

[LBCBJ]

chill out chrisiti, any suggestions are welcome here.