ASM G4+ Mod

[reefs4life]

Ok so I was looking at the skimmer on my 75G the ASM G4+ and I noticed that for some odd reason the chamber doesnt fill all the way, it only starts to fill from the point the pump goes in which is a good 5-6inches from the bottom of the skimmer body. I put a 45 degree elbow inside with a little piece of tubing to get it all the way down but now I was wondering...what if I put a Koralia 2 or something, that aims down since it's such a big chamber and it can give me more bubble to water reaction time due to the fact that the bubbles won't travel up as fast. Thanks, Fortunato

 

[NYreefNoob]

no, and it would cause more turbulance in the skimmer body, did ya do the venturie mod to the pump or the mesh mod ?

 

[reefs4life]

no, and it would cause more turbulance in the skimmer body, did ya do the venturie mod to the pump or the mesh mod ?

No I didn't do the mesh mod and I don't think I really want to try it. What's the venturie mod? So far all I did was make the air hole bigger on the pump, I think I actually saw that on one of your threads Rick

 

[NYreefNoob]

mesh mod pretty easy, u ever get a chance come up my way and i'll do it, the boring out of the venturi is the same i did on the er, that's a pretty tall body on that skimmer, most asm and er's dont fill clear down to the bottom, is it still performing ok ?

 

[reefs4life]

mesh mod pretty easy, u ever get a chance come up my way and i'll do it, the boring out of the venturi is the same i did on the er, that's a pretty tall body on that skimmer, most asm and er's dont fill clear down to the bottom, is it still performing ok ?

Thanks...and yeah it's performing fine it's just that I thought it might improve skimming with it going all the way down instead of it wasting all that space. I'm looking into sedra pumps and I found a model between the 15000 of the G-4X and the 9000 of the G-4+ maybe I'll try that pump and make a big mod. Even if it turns out to be useless at least I tried lol

 

[da5speed]

how high is your water level in your sump? I know with my ASM i got better performance when i had 6-8 inchs of water in the sump. Anything below 5 inchs and i lost power from the pump due to head height

 

[reefs4life]

how high is your water level in your sump? I know with my ASM i got better performance when i had 6-8 inchs of water in the sump. Anything below 5 inchs and i lost power from the pump due to head height

No that's never an issue for me, I've had the water barely covering the pump intake and I still had full skimming. I find that to happen more with the Euro-reef I have