Seaclone 50 & 100 Skimmer Mod: Air stone implant

SeaClone 100

In an effort to boost the production of skimmate with the seaclone series of skimmers, I followed and posted up the following article(suggested mods for the seclone skimmer). Since then, I had read about the benefits and possible problems with adding an air stone to the Seaclone 50 or 100, in order to help with fractioning(the making of the bubbles). I went ahead and modified the one on my show tank to see what the outcome would be. This mod is rather simple to do, requires following:

• Air pump
• Air hose
• Lime Stone for bubble generation
• Drill
• Drill bit the size of the air hose

All you need to do is simply drill a hole in the collection cup cover, feed the air tube through, attach the limestone, and feed it down to the bottom of the riser tube. Easy enough. Hook up the air pump, and plug it in. This worked GREAT. I had great dark skimmate, and had to clean the cup the next day. What I didn’t realize(or check for) was that the salinity of the water was slowly but surely dropping from 1.025 to 1.020 SG. I’ve just noticed this the other day, and will now revert to the original set up, and try again, seeing if the same thing persists. If not, it was another culprit(maybe some bad replacement water). More to come on this front, though the skimmate produced was pretty damn good.

Tags: Air Hose, Air Stone, Air Tube, Airstone, Bubbles, Culprit, Drill Bit, Drill Drill, Hook Up, Lime Stone, Limestone, Riser Tube, Salinity, Seaclone, Seaclone 100, Seaclone 150, Seaclone Skimmer, show tank, Skimmer, Skimmers