How good is it?

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  1. sid101

    sid101 Astrea Snail

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    I have been seeing in a lot of marine tanks, many of them owned by people i consider to be seasoned aquarists an overflow that consist in just a bulkhead at waterlever with a strainer and from there just pvc tubing or a flexible hose all the way to the sump.

    Regarding performance, sound and generally how good is this design as surface skimmer/overflow?

    I only require a flow of 400gph for the setup im putting together, would that be posible with that design? what size tubing would you recomend?

    Sorry for all the questions i would just rather use only one thread to ask what i would need to know :)
     
    sid101, May 25, 2009
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  2. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    it could be better as a surface skimmer since it will take water from just below the surface too. it works as a overflow, but depending on your gph it may be noisy.

    personally if i went this route i would put a small surface skimmer box infront of it to improve the surface film intake
     
    sostoudt, May 25, 2009
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