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Old 03-02-2007, 05:02 AM
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Heh,

yeah its kickin as we speak...non stop, and still not yet running at full tilt.

It`s a pretty massive skimmer at 105 gallons....but i want a good load of fish one day.

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Old 03-02-2007, 05:05 AM
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Hey Marc,

Yeah, we can tell from the picture that it holds 100g water! What a monter!

Are you going to DIY a self cleaning head?
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Old 03-02-2007, 05:08 AM
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Funny you mention that Fastfish, i was looking at a good 1 rpm motor in my little shop to do that next.

But it consumed so much of my time latley i just want to Not build anything for a week or so...lol
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I swear it looks like a Dalek man. All you need is two columns of lights and a little robotic arm thingy to complete the look and away you go!

What is the main body constructed of?

How did you make the collection cup, can you get short lengths of 24" diameter acrylic tubing or whatever that is? Man how much would that suck to find out you had to buy 10' of it at a time when all you want is 8" for the cup. Or are you planning on building 10 more of these?
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Daleks ... nasty little things.



From Dr. Who..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
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hahaha I can't believe some you just made a dr. who reference. Thats frickin awesome.

wow that is one mother of skimmer! That thing holds more H2O than my entire tank. sheesh.
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I was thinking along the lines of a cousin of R2D2, a few years ago a scrap dealer had what was advertised as a cottage size nuclear reactor, it was a movie prop but at 6 feet tall and 4 foot diameter, did I mention it was clear acrylic, I thought that IT would make a cool aquarium... or skimmer.

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Old 03-02-2007, 02:28 PM
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Yeah, seriously. Wow. 105 gallons, did you say?!

*starts chant* We want pics...we want pics....
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