i recently put one of my old skilter filtration systems on my 68 gal rift lake tank. will the skimmer that is on the filter help in any way...ot is it just completely useless
skimmers for a freshwater tank?
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The only way it would work is with highly pressurized air injection or adding salt to increase the waters density.
Normally protien skimmers are useless on freshwater tanks because of the speciffic gravity of the water. However I HAVE used a modifyed Skelter to good effect on a heavilly stocked freshwater tank in the past.
What I did was to glue a solid acryllic 1.5" rod to the center of the reaction chamber and then replace the rather weak venturi driven bubble generator with a powerful needle wheel type. This allowed the serface tention of the bubbles to lift debris up the narrower chamber and into the collection cup. In other words I basicly increased the power with the needle wheel pump and decreased the area of the reaction chamber.....overdriving the unit.
It took about 2 days for the levels to build up in the reaction chamber but after that I was dumping the collection cup every other day.
I ran this tank that way for over 4 years before I replaced it with saner stocking levels.
I should also note that this tank ran a salinity level fairly close to that of a brackish tank.
I also ran a larger, powered, skimmer on a 12,000 gallon pond with mixed results...it DID in fact work....to a degree but it proved to be more of a headache that it was worth to keep running. I abandoned the project after a few months.
What I did was to glue a solid acryllic 1.5" rod to the center of the reaction chamber and then replace the rather weak venturi driven bubble generator with a powerful needle wheel type. This allowed the serface tention of the bubbles to lift debris up the narrower chamber and into the collection cup. In other words I basicly increased the power with the needle wheel pump and decreased the area of the reaction chamber.....overdriving the unit.
It took about 2 days for the levels to build up in the reaction chamber but after that I was dumping the collection cup every other day.
I ran this tank that way for over 4 years before I replaced it with saner stocking levels.
I should also note that this tank ran a salinity level fairly close to that of a brackish tank.
I also ran a larger, powered, skimmer on a 12,000 gallon pond with mixed results...it DID in fact work....to a degree but it proved to be more of a headache that it was worth to keep running. I abandoned the project after a few months.