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    Thread: homemade skimmer

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      homemade skimmer

      here's my homemade skimmer which runs off air, i hope you like it

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reIPVBa3EtY

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      Nice, can you give us some details on how you built it? Your fish look great also, the dark one looked like an alligator coming to the surface for a minute, lol.

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      thats our dyson he just hoovers everything up he's 25 inch long and about 12lb i rescued him from a house that had been repossessed and going back to the skimmer i will take it out and take some photos of it atb tj

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      here you go cheryl have a look

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cLTYDkxHWg

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJYgj_Kq9s[/url] sorry copy and paste this don't no whyhere's a list of what i used

      2 x 4 inch pipe
      2 x 4 inch straight connectors
      2 x 4 inch blanking ends
      2 x 1-1/2 tank connectors
      1 x 1-1/2 pipe
      1 x 5 inch straight connector for the top
      1 bowl (or anythiny that will hold stones )
      1 piece of mesh
      air stones (i have 4 in mine)
      air pump
      if you noticed on the video the tank connectors are in a hollow this was done by cutting the holes out for the tank connectors and then warming up the pipe up around the holes with a hot air gun to make the pipe soft then put in the connector and push down and tighten the nut on and hold it till it goes cold ( i used a little cold water to cool it down )
      thanks tim
      Last edited by tjones3862; 09-10-2013 at 02:22 PM.

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      This is next in my pond. I'm considering building one, but I'll probably just buy it. I don't have a lot of free time to tinker
      I do want a top feed one like that though that takes up little space that will run off the aux port of my other pump

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