I know the skimmer in original state is not working verry well. Anyone sugestions to modify the original skimmer??

I Will also try some things and post them here.

Hi Arjan, I'v had tried many way to modidy the skimmer and the result was the same just filling up with tank water. So disgard it and got a Jad wg-308 skimmer with it own pump and it fit well inside and does the job better than the original. You can get it on Ebay now as it was hard to get.HTH

Tony

My experience today!

There where almost no bubbles and no foam.

So I tested the pump without the UV part and without the skimmer part. The pump had a powerfull current so this was not the problem.

I made a new PVC inlet with airtube for the pump and tested it again (without UV). Now the pump gave a powerfull current with lots of bubbles.
Then I took away the PVC part and put on the UV light.
Again lots of bubbles. So I put the pump with UV light back to the skimmer part.
Almost no bubbles ?????????????

I took out the skimmer tube and looked at it carefully.
In the inlet (where the pump is connected) I saw a verry small hole. It was a ring.
I took the ring out and connected everything back together.

You can see the result after a few hours on the pictures.

Where are my pictures???

Another try with my pictures

This is the ring I removed!

And this is the result!!

Show us the result in a few days time as when I had mine it just fill up with water. Be interested to see what happen.

Tony

okay I will do that.

I also modded the back of the aquarium. So it will skim of the top of the water.

Im working in the same problem right now. I know de post is very old but are there more experiences with the improvement of this skimmer? Thanks