USING OZONE WITH 2 SKIMMERS

[Adamc13o3]

I would like to use Ozone for water clarity. I have been reading that the most popular method of using Ozone is through a protein skimmer. I run my skimmer air intake with fresh air from outside. I live in Florida where the air is relatively humid more days than not. I know that using an air dryer on humid air would exhaust the media frequently and be counter intuitive. I was thinking that I can just run a second very small ozone ready skimmer, just for the ozone. It seems like the smallest skimmer I can find that is ozone ready is the Tunze Combine Doc Skimmer 9004. My tank volume is 120 gallons give or take. I know that this skimmer is undersized and I would just be using it for ozone. However, I don't know if it would even skim. I actually prefer that it doesn't so I don't have another skimmer to clean. I will probably run the ozone for an hour or two at night and have the skimmer turn on with the ozone reactor. My question is, does the ozone work with a skimmer that isn't skimming? If I specifically tuned the skimmer to not be able to skim will the ozone be effective?


Thanks,

Adam

 

[Pistondog]

There are ozone generators based on a uv lamp that do not require dry air.
Or run the ozone generator with dryer inside air, for a few hours each week.
That should be enough.
Yes, the ozone works even if not skimmming, but running.

 

[1ocean]

hey Adamc13o3...I run two skimmers on my 300...I have a reef octopus 300INT various as my main in sump chamber 3...I am in the process of installing a Avast ozone set up with their carbon post reactor and a poseidon 200 ozone gen. This set up does not require the ozone to be injected into a skimmer. I use a tunze 9410 as my skimmer to handle the water that comes from the avast set up as a additional precaution....This ozone set up is in sump chamber 2.