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Originally Posted by Otty  Never heard of that one before. Who cooked that saying up??  |
Yea...I hear that a lot on forums--don't reurn more than your skimmer can handle. To me it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, given that unless your sump is somehow in-line, all of the water passing through your sump is not being skimmed anyway. I do know one guy who mounts his skimmer in an acrylic box inside his sump. All overflow water drains into the acrylic box and then the skimmer pours water into the sump. Unless you are running a really big skimmer (with a massive pump--I run a Mag-18 on my EV, and it would need to be bigger than that!), you are probably not going to match the desired flow rate for a reef tank. Right?