All With Engineer Gobies( 2 in. to 2 feet)

[julie853]

WOW he is a little fatty.It looks like he had a great home with you

 

[psusocr1]

thanks.. i think there great for the refugium personally where i had mine, all he ate was shrimp pellets.. nothign else,, well and he he filtered mouthfulls of sand all day and night... here a picture of his home..( bottom 55 gallon refugium) you cans ee the waves of sand from him...

 

[ameno]

Hate to hear you had to sell are you stuff, I remember a thread on here where you showed how you built one of your tanks, great info.
Hope to see you do another big tank build on here soon.

 

[psusocr1]

thanks for the kind words.
Im always building tanks and sumps/refugiums for people still but i dont do anything too large now since i live in a condo and im nto around my shop..my new thing is building my own line of skimmers..

 

[ameno]

thats interesting, I was just thinking about building my own skimmer, after looking at how they work it looks like it would not be that hard to do. I know there's a lot involved in getting the water and bubble ratios right. I can see were there would be a market for someone that could build a good skimmer and compete with some of these name brand skimmer that sell for up to and over a $1000.
If I don't build my own I may be interested in one of yours, I think I'm gona have to have one bigger then what I have now, It's rated for up to 125 gal. and my new system is around 185 gal.

 

[psusocr1]

The line im working on is basically my version of " a very popular model that i love" but they are VERY expensive.. so what i did is build it almost exactly like it, BUT instead of the power hungry pumps you have to use with them i designed the skimmer to perform the same if not better but using alot less pump and more flow... I have three of them on friends tanks now, they will be tested over the year to see the performance, improvements etc. etc and then i will try my hardest to either A) patent or B) just sell high quality hand built skimmers to fellow hobbyist for a low cost..
its took me about $5-600 in materials to get it right and working how i want it too..i must have built 30 of them before i got it to where i wanted it, but i did finally end up with the version i want..

 

[ameno]

sound good keep me posted, I might be interested in one. I don't mine paying for a good skimmer just the prices they charge for the popular ones on the market seem very expensive. And it sounds like way more work then I want to invest in trying to build one myself.