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Originally posted by kgross
Harold
Why would you not want to put all of your water through t he skimmer?
We put surface skimmers in our tanks to concentrate the surfactants, and then move to them to the sump. Should we not try to maximize our skimming by feeding this concentrated stuff into our skimmers, verses just mixing it all back up and hoping we catch it the next time around?
Kim
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If this is for a recirculating skimmer all you want is 1-1.5 tank and sump volume per hour. so if you have a 100 system you want 100-150 gph through the skimmer per hour. just about any manufacture of recirculating skimmer will recommend this. most recirculating skimmers cannot proses all the water coming from you overflow.
if you are building a air driven skimmer I am not for sure but I would thank it would be the same 1-1.5 vph
if you put all the water through the skimmer it would cause to much turbulence in the skimmer body. making you skimmer less efficient