 Re: Filtration question
TxHarley,
drsfostersmith.com has Proclear Aquatics W/D that comes with a skimmer prior to the Bio filtration box.
As for skimmers not working, I was around when they first came out and we drove them with air stones and air pumps. Worked fine. It could be that people are using skimmers in the back of their sumps and their bio area does an adequate job of conversion so that there is little left for the skimmer to work on. It will make the skimmer look like a poor performer. Also, since the bio did the job on all nitrogen based polutants, it will leave behind high levels of nitrates, which a skimmer is unable to remove from the system. Had it been placed before the bio, it would have removed the nitrogen as a protine and the bio would not leave it behinf as a nitrate because it wouldn't have been there to begin with as far as the Bio filter is concerned.
The best place for a skimmer is before any other filtration, except for the sponge filtration done in the overflow, but certainly before the biological.
Cheers,
Ray
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