ClamLubber
Active member
I just got my new ASM G3 skimmer this week and only had to stomp on it twice to jam it down into the sump. (just kidding, but it did barely fit). It is an upgrade for my reef system from the coralife needlewheel skimmer (their larger one). One thing I noticed right away was the Coralife one was designed to swirl the water around which in theory would extend hang time for the bubbles. The ASM has a much bigger chamber and the water crashes straight in and crashes around with great turbulence. If swirling is better it would be easy to add an elbow inside the chamber at the inlet from pump to cause it to swirl. Has anyone tried such a modification? Any reasoning to prefer random turbulence verses the swirling pattern?