Finished the modifications to my Reef Octopus 110 ext skimmer.
Finishing up my 90G SCA build (check out my build thread), and had very little room for a decent skimmer. My sumps skimmer chamber is only 10”x11”, and also houses the probe holder, so was really limited on space. There was no hope of fitting a commercially available recirculating skimmer that would support the tank once fully stocked, so figured I’d take a crack at souping up a smaller skimmer.
I picked up a used 110ext skimmer with the old otp 1000 pump that failed pretty much immediately. That pump is no longer available so my options were to replace with an aquatrance 1000 (loud garbage), or modify something to work.
Well it took quite a bit of figuring, and some special plumbing pieces, but I got a Sicce PSK600 to just barely fit. It’s so tight I have to assemble it in my sump.
I also added a 2” neck extension for a little more body volume and contact time and made a double inlet manifold.
The skimmer is fed off my return manifold, and the air feed pulls outside air through my UV for some ozone generation.
Overall it works amazing. When on, the body is milky white with bubbles, and is pulling out some nasty stuff, especially for the tank only being stocked for about a week with three small fish.
Let me know what you think.
Finishing up my 90G SCA build (check out my build thread), and had very little room for a decent skimmer. My sumps skimmer chamber is only 10”x11”, and also houses the probe holder, so was really limited on space. There was no hope of fitting a commercially available recirculating skimmer that would support the tank once fully stocked, so figured I’d take a crack at souping up a smaller skimmer.
I picked up a used 110ext skimmer with the old otp 1000 pump that failed pretty much immediately. That pump is no longer available so my options were to replace with an aquatrance 1000 (loud garbage), or modify something to work.
Well it took quite a bit of figuring, and some special plumbing pieces, but I got a Sicce PSK600 to just barely fit. It’s so tight I have to assemble it in my sump.
I also added a 2” neck extension for a little more body volume and contact time and made a double inlet manifold.
The skimmer is fed off my return manifold, and the air feed pulls outside air through my UV for some ozone generation.
Overall it works amazing. When on, the body is milky white with bubbles, and is pulling out some nasty stuff, especially for the tank only being stocked for about a week with three small fish.
Let me know what you think.