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05-12-2007, 01:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Brooklyn
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john something you gotta live with. Even when you cook in rich's house the foam collapse. I've only witness this in beckett skimmers, but these ati are really sensitive.
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05-12-2007, 03:04 PM
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4 days worth  running for 2 weeks 
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05-13-2007, 10:20 AM
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| Line Skipper  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Marine Park
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Rotifers killed the skimmate on all my deltecs, rotifers just suck like that. I have my RK2 setup to keep my skimmer off for 60 minutes after feeding to cure this problem. I also dose my aminos etc during that time and anything else that I don't want my skimmer pulling. It works well for me that way. |
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07-10-2007, 07:36 PM
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| Line Skipper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Marine Park
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Arguably I guess. I wouldn't recommend it because for every drop it recirculates is a drop it doesn't skim. The contact time on these skimmers is not high comparatively but it does process a large volume of water for a non recirc. You're much better served, IMO by placing the intake as close to your drain as possible and having the skimmer's outlet be "downstream" of the inlet. This allows the skimmer to process the maximum amount of your tank as possible. Being that it is an insump skimmer it is already limited in the amount you process through your sump, of which it can only see a fraction. To further limit that be reskimming skimmed water is a waste. Better to skim water that hasn't been skimmed than to try and further skim just processed water. Recirc skimmers do not work on the same principal as you are employing by having your outlet at the inlet. A recirc skimmer used the needlewheel solely for the purpose of injecting air and moving water. It is the feed, via gravity or a separate pump that delivers new water. In all iterations of a recirc you do not want to recirculate the recirculated water. In short, try moving the outlet downstream of the inlet, you'll see better performance.  |
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, I finally setup the H&S A250 this saturaday.
Linear Mode
