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Steve,
This one doesn't show your leather as well, but I like the picture better because of the RBTA. It started as a small clone that George sent me and is now several much larger specimens in Pete's tank.

And Page 8 belongs to me! :D

So I bit the bullet and had Spazz build me a 18" diamter by about 6 ft total heigth skimmer.

I am still tweeking the dart and alita air pump. Spazz is sending me a new needle wheel to try out. The bubble size is much improved after I added a jg ball valve to bleed off some of the air and this also reduced turbulance.

The only concern I have left is sheer volume of bubbles. Make no mistake I think this skimmer will be a workhorse in the end but being a perfectonist I want the bubble collumn to achieve bubbleking type "white out".

The bubble collumn is a bit on the grey side and I think it can handle even more air if the bubbles are small enough to avoid excessive turbulance in the neck.


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now thats a monster, how much nog is process in a day?

It isn't broken in yet. I have only had it running continuously for 2 days or so.

The first 24 hours made a couple of cups of very putrid smelling swill. Others running the same skimmer are getting a gallon a day or so.

It will be interesting to see how things play out over the next week or so.

One thing that did impress me today was when I fed a nice helping of cyclopeez and let the skimmer continue to run. It extracted a very large percentage of what went into the skimmer in rapid fashion.

It built up well over a cup of skimmate that was fairly dark in color within literally 3 to 5 minutes.

I think it will skim like a madman eventually but like I said, I won't be completely happy until that bubble collumn looks like white pvc.

Once I get it to that point then I plan on adding a large school of anthias and give this beast a chance to prove it's worth.

Pete

How's it going?

wow awsome tank. any updates

i have talked to pete a couple of times and he has been really busy. i think his work has kept him from posting any updates.

Thanks Spazz..I completly understand. It is amazing how people find the time for anything nowadays. I really love looking at old threads and see what people have learned over the years and seeing how there tanks have progressed. Just trying to feed off all of your expierence..