I went out and bought a new skimmer for my 20g tank today, and have a few questions that i'm hoping someone can answer. I switched from a Red Sea to a SeaClone 100, and it's been set up for about 3 hours now. it kinda operates a little differently, the Red Sea was about 2 or 3 years old, so they've evolved in design and operation a little bit. I can't decide if i should leave the air-intake about 3/4 open, or a little more closed. Basically, i'm trying to figure out if i want more funnel action in the chamber, or less. i've tried to tone it down a little bit, to keep the number of bubbles on the low side, but this obviously reduces the GPH and speed of the funnel inside the chamber. Long story short; do I close the valve more, and reduce speed of the funnel in the chamber, with less bubbles, or open the valve a little more, to about 1 1/2 turns, with more funnel action and more bubbles??? I know this might seem a little confusing, but I'm hoping that either someone who has a SeaClone 100, or anyone else who can contribute helpful information, can give me some assistance. I lost a torch coral over the weekend, and since my water parameters are in check, and there were no signs of visible ailments, i'm assuming that my skimmer needed replacing. Anyone who can help me, please get the posts coming.
Skimmer Question
- Thread starter fireFISH
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Unfortunately seaclones are pretty much crap. Do some searches on RC. You'll find some things that you can do to improve it's performance. Personally I'd take it off, clean it up real good before it starts pulling anything nasty and take it back, and get a prism, or prism pro, these aren't the best skimmers either, but they're better with less hassle than the seaclones. If you decide to keep it you'll need to read through all the threads on them on RC and mod it a bit to get it to perform.
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My boss has one of these on his 18g office tank. He has a small fuge that it sits in, but you could put the pump inside the aquarium. He was skeptical about the JEBO brand, but it's done really, really well.
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Here's one that's a bit smaller.
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Personally I like my little prism, because the pump is outside the tank, and the whole thing is one unit, but if it dies on me, I'll probably go with one of these.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 37450&rd=1
Here's one that's a bit smaller.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 83527&rd=1
Personally I like my little prism, because the pump is outside the tank, and the whole thing is one unit, but if it dies on me, I'll probably go with one of these.
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