Freshwater Skimmers
Contents:
- Skimmers (and/or Ozone)
by kevins-at-eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan) (Wed, 24 Feb 1993)
by kevins-at-eng.auburn.edu (Kevin Sullivan)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993
Newsgroup: rec.aquaria,alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria
I had some goldfish in a 20g. Surface tension film on water.
Put a Skilter 250 on it. It worked. Protein skimmers will
work on FW if there's enough stuff in the water for them to skim.
From: enenkel-at-cs.toronto.edu (Robert Frederick Enenkel)
Date: 21 Jan 92 22:45:30 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: freshwater protein skimmers
Some people have been asking about freshwater protein skimmers lately.
Well, I tried an experiment in my unfiltered pea-soup goldfish tank.
Although I did have 1 tsp/gal of salt in there before, I changed 90%
of the water last week so very little salt is left. It's still pea-
soup though. I took a 1.5" diameter ABS pipe and stuck a Y on the top
with the side branch facing down. This gizmo went into the tank and
an airstone fed by a Dynamaster II went in the bottom. Great gouts
of stinking green came spewing out of the top! I was transfixed
by the smell. It smelled exactly like the nitrification ponds at a
sewage plant I was poking around at last summer (don't ask :-) So
you see, they do work in freshwater. Maybe it just depends on how
dirty your water is. Now I just have to figure out a way to catch
the foam and do something with it before it slides back into the tank...
P.S. Here's a picture if you want to try it:
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Robert Enenkel
The Krib
Plumbing and Filtration
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