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Old 05-09-2010, 03:10 AM
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The valve I'm talking about comes with the Maxijet 1200 that runs the skimmer. Each Maxijet comes with a bag of goodies (mounting brackets, intake covers etc. and it was in there.) I got the skimmer (new) from a fellow CanReefer who had bought 2 end ended up only needing one. It was he that told me to use the valve.

After I posted this morning, I watched a number of videos on this skimmer and noticed that they were all mounted higher out of the water than mine (the bottom of my collection cup is perhaps 2.5" above the water line) and I thought that the water pressure may be causing this so I planned to try moving it up a bit tonight. Lo and behold, that's exactly what you're suggesting !

The irony ? When I got home, it seemed to be skimming quite well ! The upside to the way I have it now (with the valve) is that it's a LOT quieter -not that this is an exceptionally noisy unit.

I'll fiddle a bit with the height and try with/without the valve and see how it goes.
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