Sea Clone Mods.

[danny zubot]

In my Rookie days I bought a sea clone skimmer, before I knew that they weren't very good skimmers. I have read many modifications that you can do to improve the effectiveness of this skimmer but nothing really worked. I was at my last straw with it on Friday and ready to chuck it when I decided to try one last thing.

I bought a piece of acrylic air line tubing and a small wooden air stone. Drilled a hole only big enough for the airline in the cap of the collecter cup and fed the aire line right to the bottom of the skimmer. You may have to widdle the edges of the wooden air stone to make it fit though. In doing this I virtully eliminated the need for the air vent on the pump, so I took it off. This caused too much flow going through the skimmer reducing my contact time, fortunatley I had a smaller maxi jet pump laying around, but you could use a valve to decrease the flow.

Within a day I was getting great skimmate for only a $4.00 modification.

Hope this helps!