DIY CONE SKIMMER FOR NUVO 10

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What parts you use?
I was in safeway one day and saw this blood orange soda bottle and was like im gonna make that a skimmer, and then got a clear plastic cup for the bubble plate, had a small jebao pump from a chinese fountain and air pump and wood airstone. I cut off the nozzle on the aqueon vacuum and used half the tube for the collection cup neck, and the collection cup is a detergent measuring cup(never touched detergent though)
 
ohh and a square plastic plate of acrylic on the bottom to hold the pump
 
I was in safeway one day and saw this blood orange soda bottle and was like im gonna make that a skimmer, and then got a clear plastic cup for the bubble plate, had a small jebao pump from a chinese fountain and air pump and wood airstone. I cut off the nozzle on the aqueon vacuum and used half the tube for the collection cup neck, and the collection cup is a detergent measuring cup(never touched detergent though)
You should make a video on how to make it!
 
Very well done. Some times items in stores talk to you and say make me into something useful.:)
Yes pictures of the making of would be nice. I know I have done the same made something and then had to step back ward and make it again because I was in the zone and forgot to record what I did.:)
 
thanks fro the compliments guys! Ill have to throw a video together when i get some free time or when my brother comes up to visit again hes an excellent photographer so ill be able to make a video in HD, the video i posted doesnt give a good sense of the bubble action it produces haha
 

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