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Got my new skimmer today. Let's see how this turns out. The tunze skimmer is rated for tanks up to 900 Gallons. I decided on this skimmer because the fiasco that happened when I was away this past summer. The tunze self adjusts so it won't overflow and you can add carbon or gfo in the filter sock so the skimmer also doubles as a reactor.
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Got my new skimmer today. Let's see how this turns out. The tunze skimmer is rated for tanks up to 900 Gallons. I decided on this skimmer because the fiasco that happened when I was away this past summer. The tunze self adjusts so it won't overflow and you can add carbon or gfo in the filter sock so the skimmer also doubles as a reactor.
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That looks awesome. You should post a video of it running! Didn't know tunze made skimmers

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That looks awesome. You should post a video of it running! Didn't know tunze made skimmers

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Here it is. It's been running for about 23 hours and I haven't adjusted anything other than the stand pipe. I put it up as high as it goes. There's only like a half inch adjustment that can be done. In the video I cranked up the pump tp 100% and it took a few seconds for it to self adjust and not overflow.

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That looks so badass. Thanks for the video!

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So far I like it. Rated up to 925 Gallons and it only uses something like 33w at full power. It also gets really frothy foam. I messed with it before the video so it didn't show how thick the foam was. Here's a picture I just took after it's been sitting for about 2 hours
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Makes me want to go buy one, maybe the 9415 is good for a 150g?

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Makes me want to go buy one, maybe the 9415 is good for a 150g?

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That's the one I was going to go with but the 9430.001 was discounted pretty good for black friday and it comes with a DC pump. You can even go with the 9410and still be ok. The 9410 is rated up to 264 gallons and it only uses 11W.
 
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Took some top down shots. I've been having some alkalinity issues lately. I tested today and I got 4dkh. I'm running a vertex carx. I wonder if the buffering chamber is the culprit I never had these problems with my Geo reactor. Anyway things are looking fine as you can see in the pictures.
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I haven't realized how much things have grown in my tank until I started having alk issues. Looks like the Vertex can't keep up with the demand of my tank. Here's some shots from today

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Wanted to take some blue shots

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