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Ok Shawn here are the start of the drawings you asked me to do.

Glad to hear eveything is going well Flower, puppies could not have been born to better people - good luck i look forward to seeing more and more pictures my friend. Got a love puppies breath!!!!

I went away for three weeks end of May - no one cleaned it, I guess there is some grace. I was running one of these on my goldfish winter holding tank in the basement, you should have seen the hair algae on that - I think I cleaned it twice the whole winter.

5 boys 4 girls

Thanks again Corey - hey when you build yours make sure you put a gate valve (NOT BALL VALVE) for flow control - I have the knife valves and they are a bit finiky I think a gate valve would give much better control.

6 boys 4 girls They are so cute Flower - don't know about bringing the father around though - might upset mummy a bit, she has been through a lot.

Wow - congratulations Flower

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills In the drawing I had the baffles pegged at 1 inch apart on center. Would would basically leave 3/4" spacing if the baffles are 1/4 thick. I wonder if that might be a better way to go on smaller sumps. I think the bubbles traps initial idea was to give...

If there are enough of them they can and they also can be formed from the water going over the baffle.

OK - check like SHawn said with a flash light to see if any bubbles are coming off the third baffle on the skimmer section side.

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills Your gph sounds right for screen size. 54 watts I think though is what would be used for a one sided screen. S.M. says that if you're looking for it to be effective as stand alone filtration that you need at least 1 watt per gallon. I could be wrong but...

I am a bit confused from the skimmer section of your sump how many baffles are there - on your drawing you show three. The part you left out is the bubble trap. I think from what I see on my sumps - the water should run under the last baffle to eliminate any bubbles caused from water going...

I think they work pretty good together, I think I might be a bit low on the wattage of my lights and maybe the screen size, I was thinking of putting a second screen in the fuge but that is a lot of lights under the cabinet.

Quote: Originally Posted by 2Quills Hey Al. I think you're supposed to clean both sides at the same time when you're doing a double sided screen anyway. The one side a week is just for a single sided screen, you clean one side and flip it around and let the other side grow. And supposed to...

Interesting observation thought I would share - my skimmer has been back up and running for about a week - it is collecting some good skimate - not really think but I am working on the setting. My Algae scrubber has been running the whole time, some dark stuff on the bottom of the screen and...

I would probably start by putting the smaller one in the new tank first after you are sure the cycle has established itself, meaning no ammonia and nitrites and very low nitrates. Give the new fish a little time (few days) to get use to its new home then add the larger one. I had a pair of...

You know what that scorp is thinking and he has it all over his face "someday I am going to eat you" LOL

Looks great Corey

I had a coral life 125 on my 65 - they only way I got it to work properly is building a HOB baffle fuge - then and only then did it work half decent, but I couldn't stand the pump in the tank. I upgraded to a SWC 160 cone skimmer - in sump.