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Old 07/22/2007, 06:48 PM
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tank will be delivered tomorrow
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Old 07/22/2007, 08:37 PM
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nice tank
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Old 07/22/2007, 08:48 PM
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Old 07/23/2007, 02:19 PM
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tank was delivered today
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Old 07/23/2007, 08:23 PM
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Old 07/23/2007, 09:49 PM
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Old 07/23/2007, 10:29 PM
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melev looks like you forgot somthin
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Old 07/24/2007, 12:42 AM
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Look again. There is a nice comment that might have been slightly delayed in appearing.
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Old 07/24/2007, 03:04 AM
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Old 07/24/2007, 01:20 PM
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i see now and thanks ifduty. the skimmer cup just dosent fit so now we need to get the shorter cup ugg
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Old 07/24/2007, 09:25 PM
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Hi I just trimmed the collection cup by 5/16 inch with a cutting blade on a dremmel. It came out perfect and fits, Hope it works after trimming
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Old 07/24/2007, 09:44 PM
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picture of protein skimmer with trimmed collection cup to fit
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Old 07/24/2007, 09:56 PM
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Is the skimmer going to be run externally, or does it have to fit in the sump? If the latter, it will rise up a little higher since it has to sit on the glass.
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Old 07/24/2007, 10:02 PM
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It will run externally, the over flow pipe is not complete yet. Waiting till the end of the week until rest of plumping supplies come and my friends brother is cutting me glass for the baffles in the sump. Im planning on 3 or 4 chambers.
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Old 07/24/2007, 11:32 PM
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yup will be run external. got all black plumbing for the tank except for the skimmer due to the odd size of pipe but we will paint it black with melevs best friend krylon fusion lol
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Old 07/25/2007, 07:12 PM
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not much will be happening until this weekend when we are going to drill the sump and install the baffles. plumbing will come early next week so maby in another week or so we can have the tank running
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Old 07/26/2007, 06:55 PM
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drilled the 2 inch bulk head into 40g sump using 75mm hole saw.
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Old 07/26/2007, 08:49 PM
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we pre ordered a blue spotted jawfish and bali tiger striped jawfish at the lfs. we are going to make a cove in the corner of really deep sand so they can all hang out there. we also put on hold a manderine eating frozens
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Old 07/27/2007, 07:37 PM
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this is how we plan to do the plumbing. will this work? also do we need to t the line directly to skimmer or can we just controler it with a ball valve
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Old 07/27/2007, 08:05 PM
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You have the right idea over all.

For the skimmer though, you have to put a Tee above the plumbing going to the skimmer. This is hard to make out, but you'll see the Tee in the plumbing up above the collection cup, and then some of the water flows across the sump. The reason you do this is so only pure water without airbubbles pours into the skimmer body.



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If we T the line before the skimmer we will we get enough water flow from a 3/4 inch line?
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Old 07/27/2007, 09:17 PM
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Also got some of the black pvc to start the plumbing and Im picking up the glass baffles for the sump tommorow from my friends brother who cut the glass for me

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Old 07/27/2007, 09:58 PM
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Why are the drains 3/4"? Are the returns 1/2"?
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Old 07/28/2007, 12:07 AM
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where dose it say that? the drains are 2x 1" and 2x3/4 with 1 going to the skimmer. the returns is 1.5" untill it has to get made to 3/4 to go to the lockline
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Old 07/28/2007, 02:20 AM
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The drains are the larger holes, the smaller ones are the returns. So you have 1.5" drains and 1" returns.

From the drainline, you can branch off to the input of the skimmer which I'm guessing is the 3/4" size you referred to.
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