Am I doing this right to center?
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Am I doing this right to center?
Are you going to make/buy a skim mate locker for it, or just have it drain into an open drain?
You are about to blow some people's minds who are all about bubble plates, controllable pumps and cones and stuff. Well done.
Ive always wondered on that. Don't it pull methane gas back in the system. Or lessen the oxygen pulled in?Pox on all those toy skimmers LOL.
Definately going to use a skimmate container. Probably just a 2 gallon bucket with a snap lid with a couple of level switches drilled into it. Toying with ‘borrowing’ Jeff T’s lifereef idea of pulling air out of the skimmate container as a way to reduce Venturi clogging.
What size are them injectors?Swappable injector assemblies. Once this thing is up and running I will experiment to see which perfoms better.
Won't be able to do anything more until the acrylic tube arrives - 2 to 3 weeks out.
I dunno, maybe. It’s been too many years since I ran a Beckett skimmer and I simply do not remember if it is as prone to salt lock as the mazzei. I tend to be of the view that skimmer as oxygenator is overrated, particularly if your tank is well circulated.
What size are them injectors?
I hadn't thought of it before, but that's another benefit of going recirculating; the chances of clogging the injectors has to be much lower, since you're not pulling straight from the tank.
I've noticed Beckett does best above water line. Venture does better closer to the base.
Ain't that weird though. Its like it flood the Beckett out.I do plan to experiment a bit. In theory, any venturi will work better with a larger pressure differential on input versus output; so even a mazzei 'should' work better above the water line - whether it does in practice or not is less clear. The becketts don't work at all if they are materially below the water line.
Ohh darn you went BIG.1" 885X model mazzei.