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View Poll Results: Which of the following air injection and circulation method is the ideal?
Airstone injection 7 6.19%
Mazzei injection 3 2.65%
Beckett injection 30 26.55%
Generic venturi injection 15 13.27%
ETSS style injection 3 2.65%
Aqua C style injection 9 7.96%
Flow: Re-circulating (this requires one pump for the closed loop, and one pump for pushing water through) 19 16.81%
Flow: Co-current 1 0.88%
Not sure 29 25.66%
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Samw
I think Co-current is the grandfather of skimmer designs. Water and bubbles enter at the bottom of the tube. Counter-current would be having the water enter at the top of the tube and exit at the bottom so that bubbles have a harder time rising to the top and will stay in the chamber longer. Co-current therefore is less efficient I think.
ok may be semantics but Co-current doesn't mean counter current, when you have a Co-something it means together so two currents together in the same direction. so I thought it was a different one I didn't know about.


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