Krish... how are you handling top off? I ask because the rear chamber doesn't seem to have a whole lot of volume, so the potential for the pumps to suck air and burn up (if you were away) seems relatively high.
Hey Jason...Top off is no different from before. Infact, I actually have more volume in the back compartment now than how the tank came. I can go longer before adding water to the tank if I wanted to. Also, the pumps sit real low in the back chamber (almost touching the bottom besides the skimmer pump) so I'd have to be away for a few days without topping off to dry out the rear chamber because if you think about it, I keep the water level actually half way up to the teeth of the overflow. If the water level in the tank drops below the teeth, all that would happen is water will be taken from the rear compartment and added to the tank side until it reaches the teeth again which will resume circulation between the front and back, and will only drop the water level slightly in the back compartment....Just like a sump. It will literally take days at the rate water evaporates in my tank to completely exhaust the water in the back compartment this way because of how low my pumps sit. The only pump that would run dry is the skimmer pump where it sits high, but at the rate I evaporate water again, I would safely say it would take 2 or more days with producing a collection cup of skimmate and not topping off, to probably run that pump dry and I top off twice daily
Did that make any sense??
Also, is there any sort of baffle or divider to stop the Remora from re-skimming the water it just poured out? Actually... that would just make it a recirculating mod.
How could you use a baffle to prevent that?
How the remora is designed, according to what you are saying, it is only a recirculating skimmer because the pump sits next to the output for the skimmer. There's no way to seperate the two with a chamber. What I had to do to prevent the skimmer from sucking in as much of the water as was just poured out of it was turn the intake for the pump away from the output of the skimmer as show in the attachments.
Attachment 1 shows how the skimmer would just re-circulate what is being drained as the pump sucks right from under the output for the skimmer.
Attachment 2 shows how I turned the pump around so that water from the skimmer wouldn't drain on it.
I figure a surface skimming box may limit it some (recirculating water through the skimmer, but you still have the same issue with water draining next the the pump
