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Hello all,
I recently got back into saltwater after about some 15+yr departure. I've started with a 75gallon a couple of weeks ago and will be adding my first starter fish soon. I had joined the forums over at reefcentral and noticed a member referencing this club (I use the same username there by the way), local to me and here I am
. I am excited to have some local resources, looking forward to bouncing thoughts back and forth with you all and hitting up a meet when my schedule allows .
As for my past exposure, a reasonable amount of freshwater growing up back in the day and about 5 years with a little 20gal & undergravel filter which tought me a lot of what not to do but I made it work. Fast forward, I always missed the beauty of those marine tanks and convinced the boss to let me get back into the hobby. I will be doing a FO, starting with a few damsels as a sanity check to ensure my cycle is complete and to monitor how my sump setup performs. I am still struggling with tuning the skimmer, that part is new to me. Perhaps that can be my first question in here, rather than creatnga separate thread.
I have the new eshopps x-120. It has a air adjustment, a gate valve for the output and of course the waterlevel it sits in as I understand as the three factors affecting my particular skimming with this unit. If I'm missing something please let me know. Adjusting the water level seems to big the biggest factor but after Ive gotten it to stop instantly overflowing Im not sure which to adjust next, in which order and by how much. I think the air affects bubble size by controlling the amount allowed into the pumps needle wheel which i think is more of thr final fine tune to control the waste being pushed up in the bubbles??? So that leaves the other two factors. The outlet gate valve im at a loss to seeing its impact. Ive tried fully open and fully closed seeing little difference. Obviously this affects rhe outflow from the skimmer but im not sure what i should be looking for here other than some(?)water discharging. So that leaves water level, initially i had it to deep about 10 inches, which i know is more than the manf recommends but I just didnt have a stand yet, which is also probably why instant spillover. I now have several eggcrate layers and I'm almost at the min water level recommended yet still overflowing albiet it takes several hours. I know there is also this breaking period but I've had thr skimmer itself up for about 2 weeks now. Suggestions and some insight on the workings of the components
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I recently got back into saltwater after about some 15+yr departure. I've started with a 75gallon a couple of weeks ago and will be adding my first starter fish soon. I had joined the forums over at reefcentral and noticed a member referencing this club (I use the same username there by the way), local to me and here I am
. I am excited to have some local resources, looking forward to bouncing thoughts back and forth with you all and hitting up a meet when my schedule allows .As for my past exposure, a reasonable amount of freshwater growing up back in the day and about 5 years with a little 20gal & undergravel filter which tought me a lot of what not to do but I made it work. Fast forward, I always missed the beauty of those marine tanks and convinced the boss to let me get back into the hobby. I will be doing a FO, starting with a few damsels as a sanity check to ensure my cycle is complete and to monitor how my sump setup performs. I am still struggling with tuning the skimmer, that part is new to me. Perhaps that can be my first question in here, rather than creatnga separate thread.
I have the new eshopps x-120. It has a air adjustment, a gate valve for the output and of course the waterlevel it sits in as I understand as the three factors affecting my particular skimming with this unit. If I'm missing something please let me know. Adjusting the water level seems to big the biggest factor but after Ive gotten it to stop instantly overflowing Im not sure which to adjust next, in which order and by how much. I think the air affects bubble size by controlling the amount allowed into the pumps needle wheel which i think is more of thr final fine tune to control the waste being pushed up in the bubbles??? So that leaves the other two factors. The outlet gate valve im at a loss to seeing its impact. Ive tried fully open and fully closed seeing little difference. Obviously this affects rhe outflow from the skimmer but im not sure what i should be looking for here other than some(?)water discharging. So that leaves water level, initially i had it to deep about 10 inches, which i know is more than the manf recommends but I just didnt have a stand yet, which is also probably why instant spillover. I now have several eggcrate layers and I'm almost at the min water level recommended yet still overflowing albiet it takes several hours. I know there is also this breaking period but I've had thr skimmer itself up for about 2 weeks now. Suggestions and some insight on the workings of the components
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