Are they worth the money and time to clean in a freshwater aplication?
What is your personal experience????
Thank's in advance! Mic
What is your personal experience????
Thank's in advance! Mic
Protein skimmer?
- Thread starter dapike1979
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Protein skimmers are for salt water use only. If you can generate enough foam in your freshwater to get a skimmer to function, you've got serious water quality issues! 
The typical "off the shelf" model protein skimmer would not work properly, if at all on a fresh water aquarium. It would not foam up like it dose in saltwater.
In order to work on freshwater, the water injection would need to be very high pressure to develope enough (and fine enough) bubbles to produce a foam that would remove organics from your water. THe typical ventiru might not work under this type of application either, the water pressure might push water backwards thru the venturi air inlet.
Protien skimmers are defenitly worth the money and need little maintenance to keep them operating correctly (assuming it's a good model) but for fresh water you most likly would need to either build your own or have one custom made.
Joel
In order to work on freshwater, the water injection would need to be very high pressure to develope enough (and fine enough) bubbles to produce a foam that would remove organics from your water. THe typical ventiru might not work under this type of application either, the water pressure might push water backwards thru the venturi air inlet.
Protien skimmers are defenitly worth the money and need little maintenance to keep them operating correctly (assuming it's a good model) but for fresh water you most likly would need to either build your own or have one custom made.
Joel
For FW use, the skimmer would require a commercial-grade high efficiency venturi injector.
On the other hand, if you get a standard skimmer included with a used system, they're great for oxygenating a FW tank.
On the other hand, if you get a standard skimmer included with a used system, they're great for oxygenating a FW tank.
Instead of buying an expensive reactor, you can use a modest priced protien skimmer to drawn in and mix the ozone with your aquarium water.
dapike1979 said:Are they worth the money and time to clean in a freshwater aplication?
What is your personal experience????
Thank's in advance! Mic
where in canada are you i have a red sea protein skimmer used less then a month you're welcome to it might cost you a beer and some war stories though