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12/26/2015, 03:52 PM | #51 |
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Bubble King Skimmer Users. Post your pictures and skimmer setup here!
Hi this is mine.
Wesley from holland;-) Aquarium 215x65x75 850 sump 130x50x50. 200L Floating reef Light ati hybrid 8x54watt t5 3x75watt led Ati hybrid 8x39 watt t5 2x75 watt led.Skimmer bbk Supermarine 250 rd3speedy ,Calcium dastaco 4 extrema 2 return pump red dragon 14000 Computer profilux 2 plus full option. Flow 2x maxpect gyre 150 Ams Sumpguard,Ams Integra ozon c200 uc 36w Kz zeo reactor M Methode full zeovit Super marine 250 with rd3 Greets wesley Last edited by w.vreeswijk; 12/26/2015 at 04:45 PM. |
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Wow!!!! Beautiful tank and coral!! Very impressive!
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12/26/2015, 09:03 PM | #53 |
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Scott, I will lower it to 30. Can you explain to me what that number signifies and impacts? I am getting a good foam on it now.
As my bio load gets heavier would I need to change that number upwards. Right now, I only have 6-7 fish larger then 6 inches all being tangs or Angels. Corey |
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12/27/2015, 10:02 AM | #56 |
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Sweet. Thanks Scott. I dropped it to 30 last night before I went to bed. I'll check it today. There is plenty of dissolved organics in my water column due to previous skimmer performance issues. I will try to post a video later of how it's going. There was actually a very good foam head on it last night. Can I post videos thru photo bucket?
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12/27/2015, 12:53 PM | #58 |
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Do I need a YouTube account? I don't have one, but I know it's easy to get one. I'll try pb first. Then go from there
It's only showing my whole album. Corey |
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still showing whole album
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12/28/2015, 03:09 PM | #61 |
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Here is my setup.
Tank is still new at about 3 months and I am slowly tidying up the cabling and connections. Tank is a shallow custom peninsula reef 60x36x14 inches approx 130 gallons. Sump is approximately 50 gallons - 48x16x16. Fish load is still low given the tank age, but will increase in time as I transfer my livestock from LA to SF. Skimmer is DC180 with RD3 set at 37~38w. Return is RD3 80w 2 Ecotech vectra M1. One for UV, and ARID reactor and one for seaswirl. 1 Abyzz 100 for main flow placed inside a korallenwelt dedicated rock. Everything is connected to an Apex with 3 DOS and 2 DDR's for auto water changes and dosing. Love the skimmer, I think it is one of the best investments one can make for their tank. The fine tuning provided by the RD3 and build quality are unmatched. |
12/28/2015, 03:42 PM | #62 |
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Very nice. That is a beautiful setup and plumbing job! What's your sump level? You sure are running that pump at a high power setting.. I would guess your sump level is really low or you tank is REALLY lightly stocked.
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Thanks Scott.
The skimmer is on an acrylic platform I built to raise it by about 2.5 inches. The current water level is just shy of 7 inches which is within RE recommended level according to the manual. I had to build the platform because my sump doesn't have water level adjustments and without raising it it would have been in over 9 inches of water. Should I close the volute pipe to compensate for the lower organics and decrease the power setting? The reason I have to keep that power setting is because of the light fish load. Only one foxface, 6 blue eyed cardinals, a Centropyge bispinosa and a Salarias fasciatus. The bigger source of organics comes from one of my large carpet anemones soon to be joined by an even larger one. More fish will follow, but yeah right now it is lightly stocked. |
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Thanks for the tips, I will try removing the stand and see what happens.
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12/29/2015, 02:14 AM | #67 |
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Hi Slief
I intend running ozone on my 180 mini..... Is there a recommended max on these skimmers? Will ozone affect the performance? Thanks. Mike |
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For the reasons above, I much prefer running ozone through a dedicated reactor with a 2nd reactor plumbed downstream that is filled with carbon. I've used ozone both ways an found the reactor to be much more effective, more controllable, safer and much easier to eliminate all the residual ozone. Lastly, should you decide to use ozone, be sure to use lignite carbon. That is the most effective carbon for removing residual ozone.
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Thanks for that Slief.
I currently use a small Bubble Magus skimmer as a dedicated ozone " reactor " , no issues at all, l'm aware of the issues and dangers. I used an Avast reactor previously, didn't get on with it, it needed alot of extra equipment to run it, it wasn't very good.... Now that l've added a reactor for Siporax to my sump things are really tight, that's why l'm looking at taking out my " reactor " skimmer and introducing ozone to my Bubble King. Is 50mg the max ozone the BK will handle? Mike |
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I do have it set up to drain, but there is no skimmate yet
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Then report back in the thread below as I would like to keep this current thread more about what people's final setup is so we can use it as a reference point for what is working for different people with different skimmers. The thread below will be used as a reference point for how we go about setting the different skimmers up and what to look for when doing so. Your install is a perfect example for that thead. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2546139
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Something cool that I haven't seen too many people talk about is an automatic skimmer drain. I have a masterflex pump hooked up to my skimmer drain. I push a button on my apex, and it pumps out all the skimmate to my outside drain. Works awesome!
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