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Has anyone done this

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Articfox32
, 12-27-2012 at 12:47 PM (1407 Views)
Reading on line about bio-pellets and Marc has suggested putting the outlet of the reactor towards the skimmer. Has any one plumbed a bio-pellet reactor directly to the skimmer intake? Is it better just to have it pointed at the intake?

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  1. Midnight's Avatar
    Marc and I both have a TEE fitting in front of skimmer intake so all the effluent from the bio-pellet reactor must go through the skimmer.
  2. Articfox32's Avatar
    It's not hard plumbed into the fitting just directly I front on the fitting?
  3. Midnight's Avatar
    I has a tee that is big enough to fit over the intake of the pump. Then I have the Hose coming from the BP reactor going into the tee so that the pump is pulling fresh and BP water at the same time.
  4. melev's Avatar
    Correct, that's the easiest solution as an add-on. I saw one reactor made by Reef Dynamic that uses John Guest fittings and RO tubing to point that flow exactly where you want, but until skimmers come with a JG fitting on the intake, you still have to secure it somehow.

    I have a picture of that Tee fitting in the NextReef XLT NP Reactor article.