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Old 05-21-2015, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by travisc View Post
I turned off everything, pump, skimmer and there was still a fair amount of room left in the sump before it would overflow.
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To be fair you suggested putting them side by side with a divider between, I was suggesting that divider is silly and really accomplishes nothing. Plus even in the same chamber one after the other doesn't guarantee output from one skimmer will enter the other, and even if this was a concern it would be rather simple to position the skimmers to make it less likely. If your concerns relate to efficiency your efforts would be much better spent elsewhere.
The difference would probably be close to negligible, but it's neither here nor there because clearly his current sump is working just fine for him. For the record, I meant skimmer efficiency, not power efficiency.
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