SW Rebuild - Part 5 - New Pump

The new skimmer pump finally arrived tonight. This is a Coralife Turbo-Sea 1090 Circulation pump. This is an external pump, so it can not be submerged, thus it has to sit outside the sump. I will need to drill a hole in the left side of the sump and run a hose to the new pump. Then a hose from the pump to the skimmer (Which needs to be elevated). I am positioning this pump BEFORE the refugium as I do not want to blast the goodies from the refugium through the protein skimmer. I hope to have the hole drilled, connections fitted and the hose connected by the end of the week.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• aquarium
• salt
• saltwater
• reef
• fish
• tank
• stand
• liverock
• sump
• pump
• protein
• skimmer
• coralife
• turbo
• sea
• 1090

[cobra305hp97]

Looks good but couldn't you just bleed off some of the return into the skimmer and not use a pump at all with a gate valve?

[tickleyourbrain]

@cobra305hp97 Not in this case. This skimmer uses a Venturi system which requires very high pressure/water flow through the system. Considering that the top of the skimmer about equal to the water line, there is no way that gravity alone would be able to push this through at the pressure required. Not a bad question though!

[jakeisadane]

are you going to put the skimmer in some thing what are your plans for when it starts to wet skim and fills the cup when your not home maybe if i keep watching that will be answered so on to the next vid...looks good so far

[tickleyourbrain]

I'm not sure if you could see it in any of the videos, but I attached a drain hose to the skimmer cup. That drain hose runs to a 2 gallon jug that I have sitting in the stand behind the sump PVC. I plan on running the skimmer mostly on the dry side, so I hope this wont be an issue. Good question though!

[ZurichONE95]

Is that pump too powerful for that skimmer. Is the skimmer outside of the stand, Overall 5 stars. ive heard that that pump is pretty nice.Good job

[tickleyourbrain]

ZurichOne: I spent a fair amount of time researching and talking to the guys at a couple of my local fish stores, and everybody agreed that this pump is a perfect match for the skimmer. So hopefully that works out as planned. ^_^ It should be a good match for the drilled aquarium as that has a flow rate of up to 1,200 gallons per hour. The skimmer will be outside of the stand on the left side. It needs to be elevated and it's almost as tall as the stand is already!

[electronkid710]

i have a question... i have an 800 gph pump that can be used external or submersible but my sump is very small and it doesnt fit submersible so would it work if i put a tube from the inside to the pump outside. i am worried because the water level in the sump is only about 3 or 4 inches hight and the whole thing is bout 18 inches high so will it still work or will the water not be able to get from the sump to the pump because i know that part is supposed to be like a siphon or something.

[cobra305hp97]

@cobra305hp97

Also, you could have painted the tubing you had with black spray paint and been able to plumb it without going through your stand. It should have been done with reinforced vinyl tubing not the tubing you videoed you gave the your LFS. Don't get me wrong its everything is done nice how it is just suggesting some things that can or could have been done to keep the price of the project down and the power/heat consumption down too.

[cobra305hp97]

@tickleyourbrain

If you bleed off from the drain you will have the pressure. You are confused because the actual drain from the tank is only 6 inches below the water line and the top of your protein skimmer is just above the bottom of the tank; therefore, you'll have the 20' inches of water pressure. By doing this you will become completely silent and have extra money in your pocket from using less power and less heat in the tank water.

[ZurichONE95]

Cool, I dont know why, maybe because i have a small tank, that I though that 1200 gPH is SOOOO high. But if your skimmer is made for it. Dang you are gunnna have some clean water. Good job. and you could build a matching Stand with a compartment that you can put the skimmer in AND use as a table. kinda like an extension. CAn wait to see how everything goes. !!!!!!!