lancez

I'm leaving the skimmer to run overnight and will check tomorrow if it will produce any good skimate. I set it to skim wet. I'm juz pleasantly surprise that the bubbles produced are so fine and dense with the green japanese mat filter Will take photo of the modified impeller when I take the pump out to check if the japanese mat filter will disintegrate when left spinning for a few days.

Hi Acontia. I'm so inspired by your DIY protein skimmer that I've decided to try it out. Juz happened that a friend gave me a DYMAX protein skimmer with a pump rated at 1200L/hr and I decided to modify it. The only material I can find at home that resembles the threadwheel is the green japanese mat filter so I cut away 2/3 of all sides of the impeller and use my wife's sewing kit to tie the japanese mat filter to the impeller. Once the japanese map is secured to the impeller, I use a scissor to trim the sides so that it can fit nicely into the pump. Next I fired up the skimmer and to my pleasant surprise, the bubbles that it produced were so fine and dense ( ok .. compared to my existing weipro 2013 and the 'before' performance of the dymax protein skimmer ) Here's a pic of the dymax skimmer in action

Hello Colin !! Very nice reef tank you've gotten I hope to have a collection of hammers like u do. Nice meeting u at Harlequin@Clementi. The white bubble coral that u've help me to choose is good. Open big big

Hi CMY. interestesd in your chiller. May I know what's the dimension of the chiller ? Hope it can fit into the area that I've allocated. Thanks

Arghh !! juz check the price of Artica 1/3 hp chiller from online website. Scary! more expensive than my system-3 air-con !!!

Great. ... so u're using the 1/3hp cyclone drop-in Too bad the length of the trunking of the coil is only 5 feet. If it's slightly longer, I have a crazy idea, that's to put the compressor unit beside my flat's main entrance ! Will then drill a little hole so that the coil and trunking can go thru the main door, under the bench, right into the sump!! Will it be possible to increase the length of the trunking ? haha How big is your tank tineng ? u think the 1/3 hp cyclone be able to cool down my tank which is ~ 53" x 20" x 30" ? If possible, are u able to attach a pic of the coil in your sump for us to visualize? Thanks !!!

here's another pic of the final setup. Hope to find a chiller compact enough to fit under the bench. Any good suggestions ? Constraint is that my wife will not be too happy with a chiller that pops out of nowhere. Dun think got enough space to put in the cabinet liao.

here's a pic of the sump setup

Thanks very much for the info !!! You guys happen to have the exact address for that shop? btw, is it an aquarium shop or an air-con shop ? I've just top up salt water and started circulating the tank ( tank idling for more than a year since constructed ). I'm sad to find out that the temperature hit almost 32"c on hot days. I'm a newbie and hope I can get sound advice from the more experience reefers here Kinda regret my decision not to include a chiller during the design phase ( budget constraint ). Maybe an image will help you guys get a better picture of my tank setup. Is using a drop-in chiller more suitable than using those more common inline chiller ? tineng > if u dun mind, can email me the links and how much you paid for the chiller? My email add is lancez@gmail.com. thanks

Hello. Does anyone of you know where to get a drop-in chiller in Singapore? Any LFS carries drop-in chiller? Did a search on internet and found that there's a brand called Aqua Logic that produce cyclone drop-in chiller. Is that available locally ? Btw, is there any cons to using drop in chiller? I intend to put that in my sump and do not wish to have additional pipings. Juz build a 4 ft+ marine tank in my new house which I'm moving in next month thanks in advance !!