Skimmer Thread

[kimoyo]

So I got in touch with Brent from Barr Aquatics. Looks like I'm looking at a skimmer sometime during the summer. That's cool but man I hope it will be sooner. He says the specs for the smallest Tunze pump should work ok on his big dual beckett skimmers.

BTW it turns out that Tunze overrated the draw on the pumps. The largest one is rate for 230W but actually pulls 203W. So the small one should hopefully be closer to 100W.

The other cool thing is he'll do the recirculating mod for me, he's done one for another customer already. I know it might not help with performance but it will help me plumb easier and off the overflow. I wasn't planning on running 1600 gph thru my sump anyway so it would have been recirculating somewhat.

Eventhough its a long way off I'll post pics, lol.

 

[jackson6745]

Paul I notice the Tunze pumps use a 1.5" inlet + outlet. Do you think reducing it to 1" to fit the skimmer is going to effect the performance?

I think I'm going to try the smallest pump to run my skimmer as well.

 

[kimoyo]

Yeah its going to add head pressure to it, but how much flow do you need and at what pressure?

 

[jackson6745]

Yeah its going to add head pressure to it, but how much flow do you need and at what pressure?

hard to say what i need. I am going to use it to run my skimmer. Right now I am using a panworld 200ps....something close to that performance would be good. A little less is ok

 

[elosusa]

Not pictures but videos of our NS 1000 skimming. This skimmer is rated for 1000 liters (264 gallons) and uses a standard 1260 eheim. There is my "not so shameless plug" as my first post on this forum. Herman thanks for the invite to be a sponsor. Jesse
http://www.primalreptile.com/skim2.mov
http://www.primalreptile.com/ns_skimmin.mov

 

[Deanos]

Thanks Jesse! You have some nice stuff on your site as well. Welcome to Manhattan Reefs!

 

[elosusa]

Thank Herman, he was the one who told me I was allowed to use foul language and I was sold:approve:

 

[Deanos]

Thank Herman, he was the one who told me I was allowed to use foul language and I was sold:approve:

Yep...sounds like Herman....

 

[jackson6745]

Hey Jesse, welcome to MR!

I can't see the videos for some reason???? Anyone else having problems viewing it?

 

[twinreef]

they work fine

 

[cali_reef]

Works fine for me.

 

[jackson6745]

My computer is a POS....Damn it!

How's that Elos skimmer look?

 

[ctxmonitor]

Rich, you probably need to reinstall quicktime or download the newest itunes.

 

[herman]

Hey Jesse. WASSUP and welcome dude!!! :sgrin:

 

[elosusa]

Thanks for the welcome. Man, I thought this was an Apple friendly forum:scratchch All this trouble for a couple of quicktime movies? I actually talked to Chris over at IceCap today and I'm gonna try to get there for your Frag Swap. I'll have to ship my frags over, any way you can store them if I decide to come? I know that corner tank would work perfectly:tongue1: If I do show up, An Elos guy from Italy would likely come and he could bring all the 220v stuff you needed:lol: Alright back on topic.

 

[kimoyo]

hard to say what i need. I am going to use it to run my skimmer. Right now I am using a panworld 200ps....something close to that performance would be good. A little less is ok

It might be close. The largest one that runs on 203W should be better though. Assuming you plumb 1.5 until very close to the injector, mostly all the head pressure should come from that. So if you look at the beckett injectors on barr's site, assuming the incoming pipe size doesn't affect the amount of head it adds, they add about 12ft of head. The small tunze does around 1450gph at 12ft and your 200ps does 1500 at 12ft. The large tunze does 2500gph at 12ft for 200W. But the only way to really know is to try one unfortunately.

 

[ECFENCING]

RIch: You're not the only one who couldn't see that video from Elousa.

Damn video takes forever to load on a cable connection.

 

[elosusa]

RIch: You're not the only one who couldn't see that video from Elousa.

Damn video takes forever to load on a cable connection.

That doesn't sound right at all.On a cable line it should be very fast. On a DSL line it takes me less than 10 seconds to download completely. More like 5 seconds and my DSL is just average. Did it play after the long load time? If not I may have to go to the still photos:irked:

 

[jhale]

the video works fine for me.

 

[KuyaMark]

Here's my Skimmers

Hey Guys here's some pics of my Kent Nautilus TE Kicking serious butt!