My first NW Recirc Skimmer

[jfisch61]

After many hours of reading posts about these skimmers, I decided I'd build one. It's got a 6" dia. 24" tall reaction chamber with an Octopus 2000 needle wheel modded with 3 layers of mesh and a home made venturi. The Octo is pulling 20 scfm thru a 3/8" poly hose.

What do you think?

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/583/13809100_0235new.jpg

[scooter21]

Looks nice.

-Scott-

[wife no likey]

looking good. :)

Did you keyhole the flage on your cup? I outsourced the one on mine.

[jfisch61]

Yes the flanges are keyholed. I used a template i got from an online acrylic course I took.

Where did you get yours made? I'm building a 10" dia. recirc. skimmer and need some flanges made for it.

[wife no likey]

I got the keyhole side from Andy at MRC. I based the cup I made off of the one from my MR-2. Their CNC does a much better job than my drillpress. :)

For the 10" ID flange I needed, I used this PCL script:


http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=280331

It just took a little putzing around in it to expand it to a 14" OD and put 12 holes in it.


Pete

[jfisch61]

Wow, thanks. I'll check into that. I have a request in to MRC already to make some flanges for me, but haven't heard from them yet.

[wife no likey]

yeah I had to pester him a bit to get the one.

At first I asked some more custom stuff, but then just ended up asking for a stock 8.5" keyhole for 4" OD tube and I got in a few days.