Pro skimmer for 5” water height

[fishyfishyfishy]

Hello I am desperately trying to find a good skimmer for my sump that only has a max water level of 5”. I’m not exactly looking for cheap but would be nice to find effective and inexpensive. The pump went out on mine and have been skimmerless for months 8/. Any suggestions would be great I’m tired of thinking I found one but read specs and find it needs 8-10”. Thank you all

 

[ndrwater]

Most decent sized skimmers are going to need more that 5" of water to function properly.
The way I see it, you have 2 viable options. One. Replace the dead pump with a new one. Most if not all manufacturers sell replacements.
Two. Figure a way to raise the water level in your sump to accommodate a different skimmer. Adding a piece of glass or acrylic to the bubble trap in you sump shouldn't be too difficult

 

[jschlem]

Could try a life reef skimmer works awesome and I think minimum is 3 inches.

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

What size is your tank, how much room in the sump??

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

What size is your tank, how much room in the sump??

It is a 150 g lots of room in sump

need nutrient export quick getting som hair algae and don’t even want to think about the next stage. I included image of old skimmer

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

Was able to get it to 7” slowly taking out bioballs to add marine pure block the other filtration I use is purigen and carbon/ nitro reduction pads it is a trickle filter

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

Most decent sized skimmers are going to need more that 5" of water to function properly.
The way I see it, you have 2 viable options. One. Replace the dead pump with a new one. Most if not all manufacturers sell replacements.
Two. Figure a way to raise the water level in your sump to accommodate a different skimmer. Adding a piece of glass or acrylic to the bubble trap in you sump shouldn't be too difficult

I don’t think I have a bubble trap this was bought to replace my non reef ready 125 kinda regretting the purchase I know very little about sumps I ran my 125 for 14 years on canisters until I got Cyano so treated and upgraded to this headache

 

[Wolf89]

Cad lights PLS-100 gen 3 will do the job

 

[TheGreatWave]

You could place a regular skimmer in a bucket with the holes drilled at 8". Then use a small 4watt pump to pump the water into the bucket.

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

Cad lights PLS-100 gen 3 will do the
I will look into this now thank you

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/reef-octopus-classic-150ext-6-recirculating-protein-skimmer.html You are going to need to use a External Skimmer they do not require any water in the sump or could be put in a sump but depth is not important.

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/regal-200ext-8-recirculating-protein-skimmer-varios-reef-octopus.html You did say PRO so here it is.

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

Cad lights PLS-100 gen 3 will do the job

I ordered it thank you very much

 

[fishyfishyfishy]

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/regal-200ext-8-recirculating-protein-skimmer-varios-reef-octopus.html You did say PRO so here it is.

That’s nice and will definitely save up for that one thanks, I have a lot of upgrades to do to this sump until I want to spend that