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06/20/2012, 07:48 AM
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Reefing is my middle name
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Water from Exit Pipe of Skimmer
I was always curious about where the exit water should go from the skimmer. As most of you know or has followed my build I have an external Cat3 Hurricone protein skimmer which I love to death. The water exit pipe is approximately 15 inches high. I am planning on either having a drain feed the skimmer or using an external pump. So as the title states, "Where do I point the water exiting the protein skimmer."
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06/20/2012, 09:23 AM
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Go Spurs Go!!!
 
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That depends on where you can, ideally you want it to be far enough from the return pump that no bubbles escape, and if you use a feed pump, not where the feed pump sits, no use in diluting the water you want to skim.
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06/20/2012, 09:50 AM
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Reefing is my middle name
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Thank you sir.
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06/20/2012, 09:57 AM
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My external skimmer exits water into the same partition of my sump, as I want to eliminate micro bubbles, however I have it located near the baffles, close to a PO4 reactor that used to run biopellets in the past.
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06/20/2012, 06:05 PM
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Reefing is my middle name
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Thanks for your response ghost.
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