SputnikNYC
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Yes, there quite a bit of back pressure and MagDrive 12 is the pump that doing all the work w/o any struggle, i actually had to put some ball valves to be able to tone it down a bit, because the amount of water movement created by two returns might be too much when i get corals in.
And you are absolutely right, good observation
that's why i put a union there, so i can shut down a system when changing a water and the fact that the other fitting is fitted with silicon tube, will give me an opportunity to pull it out half way and clean the sleeve. It was really the best spot for the UV unit.
The skimmer is OK, can't really complain, I had it in my first system and planning on using in this one, for now. I can't really say if it's a good skimmer or bad, simply because I never owned any other brands, so I have nothing to compare it with... I'm pretty sure that majority of those new cone skimmers are much more efficient/effective, but this one definitely suits my sump as far as fitment and it does a good job of producing gunk.... We'll see what happens, maybe i'm gonna do what I originally planned, with a separate drain/skimmer sump connected to my current one via uniseals... That way I might get one of those German cone skimmers.
