So I have a taam rio nano skimmer that I have been using for awhile and have been pleased with it. I added an airline tube with t-valve connected to the Venturi tube and it makes adjusting bubbles a lot easier. It has improve the skimmer a whole lot better. Now I wanted to make the skimmer more efficient by adding some sort of surface skimmer to get rid of oils and nasty stuff on the surface. I looked into the fluval surface skimmer, but it was too pricey for me and ugly. Then recently I saw a fellow nano-reefer have a dr foster and smiths power filter with oxy surface skimmer. It looked a lot better than the fluval. So I contacted foster and smiths to find out if I can just order the skimmer part by itself. They gave me the number to the manufacture imagine and I talked to the guy and was able to
have one sent within a week for only 5 bucks!
I didn't know if it would fit on the skimmer but assumed it will. The package arrived last night and I tried hooking it up. The skimmer valve and tube fit perfectly with the skimmer intake tube and all I had to modify was cut a piece from the skimmer so the surface skimmer can float properly
It has been working great and making the surface clear. The foam production is alot thicker. I do not have alot of skimmers yet.
Here's a picture of my skimmate before the mod. I will take another picture later this week.
