Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Equipment => Topic started by: Secondgen on August 01, 2006, 20:45:36
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I want to get my heater out of the tank, and wondered if I could stow it away inside of my Remora skimmer. Does anyone think this would be a problem?
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interesting idea. How would you get your collection cup to seat properly with the cord running through the top?
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I allready did it. I ran the cord out of the water outlet and so far so good. I also attached a surface skimmer from an Aquaclear filter, and it is also working very well. I've read the surface skimmer increases the performance of the skimmer by 20%.
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Guess you answered your own question ;D
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Keep us up to date on how it works out. Maybe you could patent it!!
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I allready did it. I ran the cord out of the water outlet and so far so good. I also attached a surface skimmer from an Aquaclear filter, and it is also working very well. I've read the surface skimmer increases the performance of the skimmer by 20%.
i didn't think of that, good job.
do you have a pic of the surface skimmer? I would have like to have been able to have done that since I don't have an overflow. sometimes my surface would scum up.
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I don't think it is anything I can patent OR ^-^. I will try to get a pic Bobby, but my camera isn't so good. I found this mod on RC, but had to make it work out of parts I had. You can do anything with a Dremel. ;D
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I don't think my camera will get the shot Bobby. The only thing you have to do is come up with a coupler to attach the surface skimmer hose to the inlet of your Maxijet pump. Another question for you Bobby how often did you clean the skimmer injector?
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I don't think my camera will get the shot Bobby. The only thing you have to do is come up with a coupler to attach the surface skimmer hose to the inlet of your Maxijet pump. Another question for you Bobby how often did you clean the skimmer injector?
Ummm, never :-[
I tried a few times to turn the nylon screw but it was so tight that I was afraid of breaking the injector or stripping the head. So I just left it. You may get some really good results if you can clean it.
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I have read other threads that said the same thing about the injector screw. Now I just gotta figure out how to extract it. ???
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only concern would be heater touching the side and melting it
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Thats what I was unsure of. I am not real familiar with acrylic. It is touching the bottom of the skimmer. Will it really melt it?
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i have melted rubbermaid tubs while heating water before. acrylic is a plastic and will melt.
test it put some acrylic in water put the heater on it (i would do this outside) leave it for a couple of days. maybe once it cools down so the heater actually runs. (to hot now) does the heater melt it....
when you set a heater at 82 the heater does not run at 82....its gets HOT! like really hot hot hot...
another option is a titanium heater with remote. you can hide those much easier and can be placed in a tank at any angle
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only concern would be heater touching the side and melting it
i thought about that but what do people with acrylic tanks do? someone on here must have one and be able to comment.
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i put a titanium heater in my acyrlic sump...because you could lay it down
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I checked it this afternoon, and it seemed to have no adverse effect as of yet. Th water is steady at 78.5 degrees.
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i have had two 300w heaters in my old acrylic sump. one glass and one titanium. i never had any issues with melting the acrylic. in the new sump, they are between two baffles and no problems yet.
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Thats good to know :). The same applies here.