cpr bak pak skimmer

[robzilla]

i have the oppurtunity to pick up a used setup, including shipping for $50. it's comes with everything, except it missing one gasket.
will this setup be enough for my 44g unit?

 

[Krish]

Sounds pretty good to me, but I think it would be better if you had a little more LR (atleast 1 lb per gallon) What's in the fuge?

 

[robzilla]

i'd like to add more lr but i have a corner tank. not sure if this tank will take the weight and the flow concern.
the little fuge has live sand and a few small pieces of lr. i'm looking to get a bigger hob fuge, like a cpr setup to help out.

 

[Krish]

Sounds good. Do you think the tank will hold the weight of the CPR fuge if you don't think it will hold more LR? I know you can get the CPR's small enough and it was just a thought.

 

[robzilla]

i was thinking of adding the small cpr fuge, which probably holds max 2 gallons. hopefully this weight would be supported.
with adding more lr, my concern is that the tank has such a small footprint with adding more weight with such a small area for weight distrubtion.

 

[Krish]

Yeah...2 gallons of water is only equal to about 16 lbs and like you said, it won't all be on the base of the tank. Good luck with the setup!

 

[snobanker]

Rob, I have the CPR bakpak on my 55 and its seems to work just fine.....beware, you will have to clean out the air intake veturi at the pump often...at least I do HTH

 

[steve-s]

beware, you will have to clean out the air intake veturi at the pump often...at least I do HTH

Ditto, still a good skimmer though.

Cheers
Steve

 

[Krish]

Hey Steve (sorry robzilla, but I have to hijack this thread a second...You can blame Ken for it though cause he taught me (LOL) I have to congradulate you once more...I just realized that you have only 248 posts and are MOTM! You must have really made an impression on the RF staff with a post count that low!!! LOL...Just kidding unless your post count wasn't screwed up a bit like Jiddy's :lol: