We have had cloudy water in the display tank, and thought we were dealing with fines in the water. We added an extension to route the water flow from the return over the long axis of the tank, and noted there were micro bubbles coming out of the return. We checked the skimmer, and the water coming from it had no noticeable bubbles. We did have lots of bubbles coming from the drain pipes into the sump. Since our sump is a 100 gallon tub, we had to fabricate some sort of bubble trap from what ...
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Updated 02-02-2011 at 02:56 PM by melev
looking at some octopus skimmers and they say they have metric plumbing what kind of issues will this cause. I dont ever recall seeing any metric pipe or adapters in the states
Saturday morning, we started out bright and early. We went to the box store and came home with cinder blocks and a whole bag of pvc fittings to finish the plumbing of the sump to the tank. This is Brian's department, I'm the go-fer. He drew out the plan on paper so we could get the right fittings for the job. Once we got the sump positioned, cutting and gluing the pipes didn't take long at all. Of course there was a leak, where the sump drain hole was. We ended up replacing the fitting with ...
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