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Did the ice cap skimmer fit with the same profile? I’ve actually been relatively happy with the skimmer, and I haven’t had issues with noise. I did place course black sponge at a few areas including the skimmer return areaHi
I have the same tank been up and running for almost 10 month’s.
I have replaced the skimmer with an icecap k1-50 and find it to be a huge improvement over the redsea one. I get more tea looking yucky skimmate in a couple days than I ever got from the redsea one. I found the redsea one to be to really difficult to clean getting it out of back was a real pain it was also difficult to adjust for me at least the icecap turn knob can see the bubbles. It’s also much quieter not the splash back sound of the redsea.
I also in the last two weeks stopped dosing nopox after using it for 9 months I found it not lowering my nitrate and causing red diatoms. After that and the skimmer not sure my tank has looked better. The corals all seem much happier. after stopping nopox my nitrates actually went down from 24 to 16?
Just my observations on the redsea e170 your tank looks awesome.
I like the MP10 at the top on the left, but the one lower down in the right has to be kept relatively low since it is near sand. I did add a Red Sea gyre on the right hand side towards the top to add more flow across the acros and that seemed to help.Hows the flow with your powerheads where they are? I have two Nero 3's that I have in the middle of the side walls facing each other. I like the way yours are set up may change mine that way.
Here is a pic of the skimmer
How high does it sit in the back, is it still blocked from view by the black acrylic backing. If you have a chance I would live to see a zoomed out picture of how it looks in the rear sump.The icecap skimmer is very quiet almost silent. I thought the redsea skimmer was loud also.