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Looking to buy a new skimmer

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I'm sure someone has thought of this but a good way to keep a submerged skimmer at the right depth would be to put it on egg crate that is attached to something that's buoyant like water bottles or foam. I plan on trying it when i get time. My only concern is keeping the total weight afloat. Plus you want a section in the sump just to fit the skimmer so that you don't have to worry about it teetering.
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Yeah you go ahead with that plan there Huck Finn :D That whole skimmer is going to basically fill with water, so you're going to have the buoyancy of the acylic body which last I checked isn't very... :D Try this, cut some PVC legs and glue them to your eggcrate, this way you know how high your skimmer is exactly and won't have to worry about Archimedes principle ;)
 
No worries. I hadn't calculated the weight of the water + the weight of the skimmer as it relates to the amount of floatation needed (I'm sure there is scientific name for that...??) and I'm sure I would have figured out rather quickly that achieving that boyancy was or wasn't easy.
 
If you have the MSX, I highly recommend redoing the meshmod if you want to use the mesh wheel. According to the MSX Owners thread on RC, the pinwheel will give you around 30 SCFH but a good meshmod will give you 40+ SCFH.

I picked up some flatback Enkamat from meshmod.net and redid mine. I have a flowmeter and before I redid the meshmod, it was pulling 22 SCFH. With 3 layers of Flatback Enkamat I'm now pulling 40 SCFH. The downside to this meshmod is that the skimmer pump won't start on its own. I have to blow into the air intake to get it going. IMO, its a small price to pay for awesome performance. I've very happy with my skimmer. Its running at 23 watts, pulling 40+ SCFH in just under 8" of water. HTH.
 
mines using the mesh mod from coralvue. Anyone know why you have to sit the skimmer up higher ? i thought the 8-10inchs of water means the water level in the sump needs to be 8=9 inchanes high in order for it to wrok best?
 
my guess is you may have to have the skimmer in deeper water if the pump is not performing well. When my pump was only pulling 22 SCFH, I needed to have it in 11" of water to get it to skim. Now that the pump is working so much better, the skimmer is in less than 8" of water and still skimming wetter than before.
 
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