OK Since my Tank has been rock curing station for while now I needed a quick fix to handle topoff duties without spending more 10 bucks. So going back in my memory I rememberd we used to use carboys from water drinking machines and take a rubber stopper and drill hole in it to fit a pipe going down to trickle sump. I had carboys alreadyt but no stopper that require an air tight seal. So off to Walmart I went looking for stopper. I happened across this in the camping section.
First off I am no guru on skimmers like Luke33 is on other forums. However I do know a thing or 2 on what works for me. I started on this project with a Reef devil skimmer,It was a devil to setup and stabalize. I called it Satan. Anyhow I stuck with this for part of my process but eventually got my hands on turbo clone
Well I got my hands on turbo clone, but it needed work badly
But hey it was free,
Ok here we go.
Step one get yourself a container with screw on lid,, a 2 liter coke bottle will work to.
step 2. clean completely of labels and residue.
Step 3. Drill a hole in center of lid measuring 3/4 inch
Step 4 Pick up a Hose Barb from Home depot measuring 1/2 barb with 3/4 in male adapter
Step 5. Drill holes of 1/8 inch around the hose barb.
Step 6 Get yourself a little Maxi jet 90 pump.
Step 7 obtain
In my Previous blog I gave some of my background in tanks. Now it is time to get down to it. I scored a acrylic 55 gallon from a fellow club member here for 100.00 with stand and canopy. the tank was pretty rough, mico scratches all over and just looked bad over all. I gave it good cleaning and it came looking like this.
After much rubbing with Novus ( great stuff for acrylic owners) it came out lookiing like
I have owned all different kinds of sumps from Trickle to tub type, This unit is the easiest to do. I wanted a refugium included so Picked up a 55 gallon tank for my 55 gallon Aquarium. I figure the more water volume the better. There is reason to that thought but not a place for it in this blog.
I scored a older aquarium from a local dealer around here for 50 bucks. I had glass at the house already and know how to cut it , so I grabbed the old glass cutter layed the 1/4 inch down
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