Help me understand recirculating skimmer

[bluecheese]

Specifically this one:

Reef Octopus

my main question is, does the outflow pump out? I.e. if I placed the skimmer in one sump chamber, but wanted the outflow to pump in a different chamber, could I run a hose from the outflow over a baffle to the other chamber? Or does the water just flow out of the skimmer via gravity?

 

[mehaffydr]

Water flows out by Gravity so the only way to get the outflow into another chamber would be if the baffle that is dividing the sections is lower than the outfeed water line, This is the one with the valve

 

[bluecheese]

Basically, I’m trying to figure out where to put the l skimmer. I’m thinking of putting it in the fuge, but there isn’t a large volume of water that flows through the fuge. I could increase the flow, but the pipe that runs from the fuge to the return chamber can’t handle too much flow.

The refugium is the chamber to the right.

This is the pipe that connects the fuge to the return chamber:

 

[bluecheese]

Looking at this picture of the skimmer in action, the outlet uses a vertical standpipe. I wonder if I can make the pipe higher to go from the refugium to the return chamber from above...

 

[Blue Ring Octopus]

Problem with setups is that not everything fits the way you want it too. If you had a tradionial H&S or Deltec skimmer you could just plumb the drain to where you want it.