BK Mini Skimmer build.... DIY !

[mojo]

Its just the skimmer breaking in. No leaks at all. breaking in nicely.

 

[mojo]

I took another couple quick pics. ill get them loaded soon

 

[mojo]

 

[ReeferBen]

That looks better than my bubble king mini lol the milk in that thing is serious! :bigsmile: Love the shape of the lids ring also, nice work all around, I wish I had such skills.

 

[Troylee]

Looks great Jesse... I don't see any problems with that man....;)

 

[lvsuckerfish]

looks good breaking that bad boy in.

 

[mojo]

It does for sure fill up the body nicely with "Milk" per say. I did go out and grab my dwyer from the garage to see what the pump is doing. I went pretty mild on the venturi as it is basically a stock coralvue venturi. Aquamaxx from marine depot. I was going to make one for it but when you go much bigger on the inlet diameter of venturi, you have to be carefull. The sicce pumps do not have a lot of torque and being its an internal pump I didnt want to be taking it apart all the time. Oh, and yes the whole thing comes apart for cleaning. I know the Larger venturi like used on the WM k2 skimmer uses a .75 in inlet. Mine is using a .56 id inlet. What does that mean for me. I could probably get 40scfh out of this pump pretty easy if I wanted too. Where right now I am getting a really smooth 32 to 34 scfh. so about 900 to 950 lph of air with 0 issues. no startup issues, no rotational issues. Cant hardly complain about that.

 

[Urban Reef]

Excellent craftsmanship on that skimmer! We all can't wait to see what it pulls out.

 

[rosebud161616]

Can you tell us what the total cost for materials was for the 2 when all said and done? Obviously the labor would add a lot, but I'm interested to see what just the materials cost.

Very nice job btw! I'm not sure that I could run one of these if I managed to pull it off. I might have to buy a museum box and leave it out just to look at. :)

 

[Troylee]

with all said and done i think it was close 200$ a piece minus labor.....as for the display case thats what i will end up doing with my big huge cone if i ever finish it...all said and done it would be about 5ft tall..... the body alone is over 3ft tall i can almost sit down inside of it lol....;)

 

[J&O'sdad]

with all said and done i think it was close 200$ a piece minus labor.....as for the display case thats what i will end up doing with my big huge cone if i ever finish it...all said and done it would be about 5ft tall..... the body alone is over 3ft tall i can almost sit down inside of it lol....;)

I want to see pictures of this!

 

[rosebud161616]

with all said and done i think it was close 200$ a piece minus labor.....as for the display case thats what i will end up doing with my big huge cone if i ever finish it...all said and done it would be about 5ft tall..... the body alone is over 3ft tall i can almost sit down inside of it lol....;)

Holy crap! I agree... there better be pics! :)

 

[mojo]

So far so good. THe skimmer is chugging right along.

 

[Troylee]

I want to see pictures of this!

It will have a cup about the size of the 5gal bucket on top lol....

 

[mojo]

holy cow.... THat is huge. I coulp put my tank in the bottom.

 

[gar732]

That's a serious skimmer!

 

[mojo]

gar , did you get your acrylic yet? shipped out parcel post. so it takes a bit.

 

[gar732]

Not yet. It was in PA last I checked . I'm still debating how I'm going to hack it up though. I'll figure something out, however I'm sure it won't be as pretty as yours. lol

 

[tcfab]

Any updates yet guys?

 

[lvsuckerfish]

do you thing this will work with a 5 in body same pump and all?

as i obtained 6 foot of 5in diam acrylic tube for free so I am thining of makeing one along with a couple reactors......