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03-24-2006, 01:24 PM
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Shark
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Way to reduce bubbles from an ASM G3
I currently have the gate valve mod done as seen here. The output is about 3" under the water level.
Or are these output bubbles the way it is. The create micro bubbles if the water level in the other half of the sump get low.
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TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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03-24-2006, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: bend, oregon
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do you have baffles?
I cant tell from you picture, if not they are imperative. I actually have done a couple of other things as well, but the baffles eliminate 90+ percent of them.
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03-24-2006, 07:44 PM
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Shark
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Yes I have baffles...but was wondering how to reduce the bubbles from the output still.
I plan to put a sponge between them which should almost solve this, if I do have some bubble escape the baffles..
However, I'd imagine all the bubbles will inevitably create a lot of salt creep on the sump.
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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03-24-2006, 08:59 PM
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After i rebuilt and "perfected" (so i think) my baffles i still had air bubbles too. My skimmer is outside the sump, but you might be able to do something similar to what i did which DID eliminate the bubbles.
Where my skimmer comes in I have it going into a T instead of a 90, mainly to help control the water level in my skimmer(thanks Tom), but i think it helped with bubbles too. But the main thing is that I have the bottom end of the T i pipedown to within a couple inches of the bottom of the sump and partition that corner of the sump off so the water is forced to come all the way to the top immediately before entering the rest of the sump. So with my set-up i just have a four inch corner of my sump walled off.
Dont know if you can incorporate that or not with your set up but it works great.
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I like to glue animals to rocks and put disturbing amounts of electricity and saltwater next to each other
Zoa and paly pics HERE
SPS pics HERE
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03-24-2006, 09:09 PM
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Shark
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Do you have any pics?
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03-24-2006, 09:10 PM
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Shark
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Oh and your running an ASM out of the sump.... 
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Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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03-24-2006, 09:11 PM
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I dont at the moment and i dont have my camera with me, but i will tomorrow. Ill post some tomorrow. If you dont see me bump this thread up, do so yourself to remind me.
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I like to glue animals to rocks and put disturbing amounts of electricity and saltwater next to each other
Zoa and paly pics HERE
SPS pics HERE
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03-24-2006, 09:12 PM
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No, MR-2. I think the bubble problems dont discriminate though.
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I like to glue animals to rocks and put disturbing amounts of electricity and saltwater next to each other
Zoa and paly pics HERE
SPS pics HERE
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03-24-2006, 09:40 PM
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Shark
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Cool.
Thanks.....as I was a little concrened for a minute
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Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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03-25-2006, 10:38 AM
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Shark
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ttt
So would putting an elbow where the current T is and a T at the water level help the bubble issue?
Or just use 2 T's?
Or don't bother?
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03-26-2006, 08:21 AM
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Shark
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come one people...no one 
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