Wondering if I could make a injector for my skimmer to make it even better ! I Have a reef octopus , seen premo reef take a aquac skimmer apart and it had a small acrylic cylinder in the inlet that was slightly pinched at one end ! Wonder if that style would work on a reef octopus mod it to fit to the pump ?
Any skimmer guru's out there
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luke33
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The older RO's were easy to mod by making a better venturi and meshmodding the impeller. But in the last few years they make a pretty decent venture and there pinwheel is fine so modding it isn't going to yield much results. I remember when the octo200 was out and I could mod it from 12scfh of air to 40scfh of air by doing the above.
luke33
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The bb pump's don't need to be modded at all, the venture and pw's work well. The aqua c is a spray injector so its a whole different animal. Personally I'm not much of an aqua c fan. The larger models seem to work ok but I have never had luck or cared for the smaller models.
Stoopy
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an sro doesn't need mods, if you want to get the water even cleaner, consider a bp reactor. Lately though i have been back on an ozone kick , maybe inject ozone. If you want a bad butt xt skimmer try a skimz , just a beast of a skimnmer.
Modding skimmers is kind of a thing of the past , companies have optimized the air intake / water intake/ contact time thing pretty well.. if that wasnt true everyone would just jam an air pump and a wood diffuser into their skimmers ( this still works on CSS and other crap skimmers) just buy a quality skimmer reef octo is fine, rated 1.5-2x system gross volume.
do 20% monthly wc, because really what m,atters is your RODI and your consistency.
Modding skimmers is kind of a thing of the past , companies have optimized the air intake / water intake/ contact time thing pretty well.. if that wasnt true everyone would just jam an air pump and a wood diffuser into their skimmers ( this still works on CSS and other crap skimmers) just buy a quality skimmer reef octo is fine, rated 1.5-2x system gross volume.
do 20% monthly wc, because really what m,atters is your RODI and your consistency.
luke33
2500 Club Member
There are lots of good skimmers out there. I have three skimz models over the last few years and they work well. Really you want to look at a few things when it comes to a skimmer, one, the footprint and rating, two, your budget and three your needs meaning in sump, hot, external....etc. MRC's are good skimmers, but so are octopus, vertex, BK, skimz....etc. If I were going with an external skimmer I would most likely get a reef octopus or skimz, just because they are readily available and they seem to work well.
