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Brian Fabiano

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I am moving the tank across my room to the window. My skimmer uses an air pump instead of a motor. But I have figured out a solution.

I am putting the air pump inside of the air tight container and running a rigid 1/4 line from the container to out the window with a muffler (to keep bugs out). Forcing it to pull its air from outside.
Any luck with this?
 

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First: I lived in costal Florida for years, my condolences.

Second: get a new skimmer and add a CO2 scrubber. They're easy as heck to diy and cheap to run.
 

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I will go in search of the other thread, but for anyone up against the same issue, my suggestion would have been.

  1. Get an ERV/HRV and fix the CO2 concentration in the whole house.
  2. Put a CO2 scrubber inline after the air pump and feed the skimmer using that. No reason that scrubbers can't be pressurized. They might even work better in this mode of operation.

Dennis
 

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