help with euroreef skimmer pump

[zaireguy]

Hi

Well we just got back from Disney World and yes we was down there friday when they shut down and went thru the big storm once in a life time event Any ways my sedra skimmer went out on me driving my euroreef skimmer.

I tried to use a quietone pump that flows even more water flow but it doesn`t seem to pull the air right it kind of surges unlike the sedra it ran the skimmer so well and never surged.

Any body have a sedra or know what I can use to drive my skimmer or where to kind a sedra at a good price ?My main tank is a 120 with a 75 gallon sump.
thanks all

Ron

[Tasher80]

Im not sure but don't EuroReef pumps have special impellers or something to make them work better with EuroReef Skimmers?

[SPC]

Originally Posted by Tasher80

Im not sure but don't EuroReef pumps have special impellers or something to make them work better with EuroReef Skimmers?

Yes, these pumps use a needlewheel impeller.
Steve

[crab0000]

Have you tried soaking the pump in a bucket with water and vinager overnight? You may just have build-up on the inside. If it's the impellar I think they have a lifetime warrenty from ER. Anyway, here is a place to get a replacement pump http://www.h2otropicals.com/Products/ER%20Parts.htm .
HTH
Steve

[big t]

zaireguy, your pump that you tried that is surging will probably work, what you need to do is create a special intake, and here is how to do it. On the intake wheter it be 1/2" or 3/4 you need to buy that size pvc adapter that adapts from female, male or whatever it is down to 1/2" slip. Then once you have that cut a piece of acrylic so that it fits snugly into the inside of the 1/2" part and glue it in w/ weldon 16. After that dries drill a 3/8" hole in the plate. Then drill a 1/4" hole in the side of the adapter right behind the plate that you glued in on the intake side of it (the part that screws into the pump. Insert some 1/4" poly tubing into that so that it is about halfway down into the adapter and glue w/ superglue. After all that screw it onto your pump and it should work like a champ untill you can get your sedra fixed.