Looking for skimmer experts. Retrofitting Skimz SM202 with different pump.

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I’m working on this project to get a new pump working on this skimmer since the OG is dead and there are no drop in replacements available.
I had a spare bubble blaster 3000 around so I did retrofit that using the original skimz Venturi located as close to the inlet as possible however the whole pump is moved away from the skimmer quite a bit. I never ran this skimmer prior to this so I don’t actually know what the microbubbles are supposed to look like but here’s what I’m seeing. Wondering if I could get some feedback to see if this looks as expected or if something seems off.

 
Now that I look into this a bit more it seems that I should have reused the bubble blaster Venturi and not the original Skimz one. I’ll give that a try.
 

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