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09-06-2010, 02:03 AM
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Keep the air intake venturi flushed with boiling RO every couple of weeks! It really affects performance. (well, it's what I do anyway!)
BTW, can anybody tell me what the extra acrylic ring is for? - It's function is not immediately obvious, I must say. The pump is now almost dead silent, for all practical purposes it is completely silent. The only way you'd be able to hear this skimmer is if you had absolutely nothing else turned on in your tank. My powerheads make more noise than it does. 
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09-18-2010, 12:00 PM
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So, just wanted to update everyone. I'm starting to be not so impressed. The skimmer is not really skimming all that much skimmate, or with any consistency. The production of skimmate has not changed since the beginning, when it was supposedly breaking in. The skimmate is also very watery. I took it apart two days ago and cleaned it out. Disassembled the pump, only t discover that the meshwheel was looking pretty unhealthy (frayed out and thinning). I replaced it with the spare needlewheel, which I don't think I should have to do yet, by the way, and it did not really improve the situation.
I'm running this on a 50 gallon sps tank with 2 anthias, a yellow tang, 2 ocellaris clowns and a royal gramma. I feed a small amount of thawed and drained frozen food once a day. Is that enough bioload/doc to support this size of skimmer? Do you think it might be just oversized? It's the nac6a model with the wider neck - could that be the source of the problem? Is the neck too wide, you think?
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09-18-2010, 01:52 PM
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I think your fine.Few things.
Mesh wheels do wear out fairly fast. It's why most manufactures do not use them. Pinwheel's, although not as good at chopping the bubbles, last a heck of alot longer. The skimmate production will vary. You may well be at equilibrium with what your tank produces and what your skimmer is taking out. You really can not have to large of a skimmer. A larger skimmer will just seem like it doesnt skim as much, as it is acctually pulling more out, and when there is no gunk to pullout, theres no gunk. A undersized skimmer will acctually pull lots,all the time, as it can not keep up and there is allways gunk in the tank to pull out.
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09-18-2010, 02:19 PM
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I never could read Chinese, but if it has an acrylic bottom, that extra piece of acrylic is most likely a coral viewer/camera boat for top down viewing or taking photographs into your saltwater aquarium.
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09-19-2010, 12:20 AM
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09-19-2010, 12:31 AM
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Ring for a filter sock maybe, on the output?
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09-19-2010, 01:38 AM
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