I’m a fan of Kamoer pumps. They can be fidgety but once you figure them out. They are good. Dunno if you guys know. But a lot of companies use their heads and rebrand them.
Picos that small. Skimmers are useless not enough contact time. Plus they are extremely fidgety. Imo. Save your money water changes is your best friend. Forget the rest. You are the best clean up crew.
Particle board. It’s saw dust with wood glue squeezed together with high pressure ? If it is. Try Elmer’s glue. Your kid should have some from the 3rd grade. See if that works. Just do one piece as a test.
If worse comes to worse. Liquid nails. That will stick almost anywhere and everything
Supposed to be anything 1/4” thick the uv disburses. I haven’t seen any crazing in the acrylics. I’ve burned fish with open uv before thru a pvc with holes drilled thru it. I’ve also run open uv in the back of glass aio without issues. The light doesn’t get to the skimmer. It’s in the drop down...
More tinkering. I had a sea torch beast 160 sitting in my garage. They are from Australia so they run on 240v. Bought a power inverter put it pulled too many watts.almost 50. I dug around the garage and what do ya know. A small octo 1000. With some quick pvc mods. We have a eco budget skimmer...
Amazon has reef crystals marked down plus another $15 coupon. Paid $61 for 200g box. If you haven’t done auto ship can get another 35% off first order
Seen it on humble.fish.