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Old 11/20/2007, 03:11 PM
Reef Sponger Reef Sponger is offline
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Originally posted by hahnmeister
Thats odd, I tried the same thing, and the skimmer worked fine... had it up at over 1100lph. The skimmer didnt perform any better though. Anton has said this before, that more air in these bodies wont improve the performance so much as just make the skimmate lighter. So to get more performance, you need a larger neck.
The Sicce pump used was a ATi modified Sicce that came off of a BM250, the foaming was outrageously turbulent. I'm just assuming the air draw was somewhere between 1,000lph to 1,250lph as previously tested by the dealer on the ATi Sicce. I know the same skimmer dealer and have talked to him about his testing he did last month. Yes, a wider diameter neck and/or taller needs to happen to compensate for the ATi Sicce modified pump, that's for sure.

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Originally posted by ATB USA
The final small will be 10.5 inch base 5in neck air intake should be 850-900L/hr of air
This is a great change, more air draw and increase the body side to match the stronger pump. Hopefully, the same will happen with the Nano.

Last edited by Reef Sponger; 11/20/2007 at 03:58 PM.