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08/15/2007, 01:19 AM
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Drain fed skimmer?
How efficient is feeding your skimmer straight from the overflows?
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#2
08/15/2007, 09:35 AM
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Unless you got some type of recirculating pumps it might not be enough water force to produce what you need.
All depends on how big the tank is, and how big the skimmer is. To many unknown variables to give you a good guesstimation. Carlos
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08/15/2007, 09:48 AM
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It's fine whether you have recirc or not. Just hook the line up to the feed pump if you don't have recirc.
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#4
08/15/2007, 10:51 AM
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Direct fed is the only way to go IMO. I have run my skimmers both ways and the direct fed ones pull a lot more stuff. Its the only way to guarantee all the proteins make it to the skimmer.
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#5
08/15/2007, 11:02 AM
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So if you have two drain lines coming from two separate overflows(dual external O.F) do you tee both together and feed all the drainage to the skimmer or do you use one to feed the skimmer and have the other one just dump into the sump or fuge?It seems a little wasteful to have one drain totally unfiltered if it bypasses the skimmer.Any comments.
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08/15/2007, 12:15 PM
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My tank is 180 dual overflows in the corners rated about 500gh each. The skimmer needs a 900-1000 gph pump to run it. So I was figuring that if i feed the skimmer both( by the way the over flows are going to drop about 3-4 feet befor it gets there) Flows straight to it would it work? thanks for the info!
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#8
08/15/2007, 12:35 PM
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900-1000 gph through your skimmer....? That doesn't sound right at all. Make sure you read your numbers correctly. Even if your pump is 1000gph once you introduce air via ventruri you aren't going to be anywhere close to 1000gph.
You can feed both of them to the skimmer, just make sure that both of them T off into the sump in case the skimmer can't handle all the water (you tank would overflow if you didn't)
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08/15/2007, 12:48 PM
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The skimmer is a reeflife. I got from a LFS the pump I was useing with it was a littlegiant 4MDQ-SC Around 800-850 gph and it was seem like it was struggling less than half the skimmer was bubbles the other halfe was clear water. Didn't pull much either. Thanks for the feedback guys its helping me alot thanks.
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#11
08/15/2007, 07:27 PM
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bump
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Linear Mode
