What effect does sump water height have on protein skimmers? | BRStv Investigates

[randyBRS]

It's time to start making more educated choices about protein skimmers and how we use them in our tanks!

Today test the air draw performance of a handful of skimmers to find out how the water level in the sump affects their overall air draw. We may have opened the door to more questions than answers, but with what we learn today...by the time we're done testing skimmers in this series we'll probably wind up with better answers into optimizing skimmer performance than ever before!




If you're the type that likes an article format of these tests, we have them for a ton of our most recent videos! Check out today's video article here!

 

[Rick Mathew]

It's time to start making more educated choices about protein skimmers and how we use them in our tanks!

Today test the air draw performance of a handful of skimmers to find out how the water level in the sump effects their overall air draw. We may have opened the door to more questions than answers, but with what we learn today...by the time we're done testing skimmers in this series we'll probably wind up with better answers into optimizing skimmer performance than ever before!




If you're the type that likes an article format of these tests, we have them for a ton of our most recent videos! Check out today's video article here!

Love what you all are doing to add to the knowledge base of this hobby...Keep up the great work!!

rick

 

[Aardvark1134]

Manufactures put a water height range on the instructions for a reason.

 

[Reefahholic]

Had a skimmer one time that would never skim right. Constantly overflowing. I didn't think the water level being too high would affect the performance because I was skimming at about 8 inches. Once I dropped the level to 7 inches it was fine.

 

[GoGo98102]

Am I rude to point out that on the title, “affect” should have been “effect” and on the first comment, “effects” should have been “affects”? Sorry.

 

[Bob Escher]

Love the Series this one is very interesting to me

 

[Aardvark1134]

Since gogo brought the issue up lol "Affect and effect are easy to mix up. Here's the short version of how to use affect vs. effect. Affect is usually a verb, and it means to impact or change. Effect is usually a noun, an effect is the result of a change. "

 

[randyBRS]

Am I rude to point out that on the title, “affect” should have been “effect” and on the first comment, “effects” should have been “affects”? Sorry.

Haha! You win some and you lose some. Fixed, nice catch!