DIY Freshwater Protein Skimmer

ryang85

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Just put together my cascade skimmer, from top to bottom its only 30". So far within about an hour its producing a good amount of blueish nasty foam. I tried lava rock with a complete failure but switched over to large river rock and instantly had better results. I think I need to improve my foam collection method but so far its working better than I expected. It might take some time to fine tune.

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Rhyno8

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That’s a pretty awesome compact design. I had good success using k1 media to create my foam in my old freshwater skimmer26400C4B-8BB2-44AC-9159-0F8869CB8472.jpeg2CFA479F-F868-45D1-AF18-B1FBAC40F85C.jpeg

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