Custom made Protein Skimmer.
Well from browsing through various threads I know this is most likely the thousandth time someone has asked for advice on building there own Protein Skimmer. Now personally I am not looking to build a Protein Skimmer to lower my overall cost. My main goal is to build a custom piece of equipment tailored to my overall specifications with the added bonus of being able to say I designed and manufactured it myself. So if you have experience in building you own Protien Skimmer, working with Acrylic, working with PVC than any advice would be greatly appreciated. I will post rough schematics of the idea of the overall design shortly.
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Well, I built one a few years back. It worked. I ended up buying something that has had hours upon hours of testing, fine tuning and worked like it was supposed to.
I would say your best bet is to copy something that is already out there and will fit in your space, that way you know it works well and you won't end up wasting money. Plastic tubing of any size isn't cheap and fittings, bonding agents, parts.... http://www.tapplastics.com/ is a good place to get supplies. |
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I tried to say all that... just maybe didn't come out that way :)
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just a little fyi if you buy a red dragon pump etc, it's gonna cost more than buying a bk, or atb skimmer..been down that road....it is fun to build your own creations i am all for it, but just a warning money wise...i could of bought 3 or 4 atb skimmers before i perfected my first cone skimmer...;)
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