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Unread 07/20/2008, 08:49 PM   #12
tmz
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Hi Gary,
I have the luxury of having my sump in the basement,so it was easy to run an airline to the basment window and rig a piece of stiff insulation with a piece of screen to cover the opening in the galss block window and provide a screened air input for the tubing. In a DIY mood and with 20 minutes to spare, I tried it. Eventhough I wasn't sure I had a CO2 problem in the house.

My skimmer did not bubble well defeating the whole purpose by reducing the skimmer's oxygenation, probably because of the 10 foot length of small tubing.I could fix this by running a one inch or so pipe and reducing it down at th skimmer but I never did and just started dosing kalk instead with much better results.

If I were going to try this again, I would do the outside aeration test first to discern wether or not I have aCO2 problem in the house. As you probably know, you aerate some tank water and test the ph inside,then take some tank water outside , aerate it and test the ph. If there is a significantly higher ph outside then it might be wothwhile to hook the skimmer to an outside line.

Those numbers 7.14 don't seem at all right and are probalby related to a testing issue.


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