River Lotus
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I would like to know who has made protein skimmers at home.
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Welcome to R2R!!! I've done a lot of DIY projects but not a skimmer.
Welcome to R2R. Might also want to try the DIY forum, and maybe also look at wooden air stones.
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Welcome! Have not made my own skimmer unfortunately, back in the day they were made with some pretty simple parts
I'll see if I can't dig up some pictures- they're probably on an external hard drive somewhere. This was about 10 years ago. The riser was a 6" PVC pipe and I ran it with a spare sedra 5000 from an asm g4. In terms of design, imagine a deltec skimmer, now remove any sort of engineering or finesse and make the entire skimmer opaque. Make sure to stain the outside of your connectors with purple pvc primer and use too much silicone- at that point you'll be pretty close to imaging what it looks like until I can dig up some pictures.
I made one decades ago out of 4" PVC pipe with two air driven limewood diffusers. It was around two feet tall. Worked great.
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I’ve never made a protein skimmer but Welcome to R2R!!!
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Does finagling a limewood airstone into an old juice bottle and plugging it into a collection cup and air pump count?
Does finagling a limewood airstone into an old juice bottle and plugging it into a collection cup and air pump count?
