My
fish room is just about finished. I have added a 5 foot tall dual beckett skimmer to the system powered by a Reeflo Hammerhead pump. It replaced a smaller single beckett skimmer. I am still waiting on a valve to show up, it is needed to raise and lower the water level in the reaction chamber. I was forced to order it as there is not much to choose from here when it comes to pvc gate valves.
The skimmer is a diy unit made by a friend of mine. He had difficulty getting it to work. He started with a Panworld 150ps pump and felt that it was too small for the dual becketts. I cannot verify this but, I did find the cores of the becketts upside down and this will cause problems. I also had to build a new lid for the collection pump, my friend drilled holes in it, feeling that the skimmer was not breathing enough through the 1/2 inch drain line. I do not know if this is true with the Panwold but, with the pump I am using it was a problem. I went out and bought 1 inch thin wall pipe. I heated the pipe and formed a flange in it to be glued to the collection cup. Using a dremmel I opened up the 1/2 inch hole to match the flange. I used Weldon 14 to glue the pipe to the acrylic, did sand the pvc and am hoping it will be enough to keep it in place.
My friend also had the Hammerhead but it was in pieces, he was getting ready to reseal the wet end. As he was working through the skimmer problems, my friend, decided to get out of the hobby. I finished the pump and plumbed in the skimmer. This thing with the new collection cup lid, a half inch hole to breathe through and no drain return valve to hold the water up still made a half of a cup of dark skimmate. When I get this thing dialed in she should kick butt.
I had to build a table over the sump to set the skimmer and an algae scrubber on. The scrubber is going to be built from a 20g long aquarium. I think this is all I will need to build except for a carbon and gfo reactors; they will be attached to the edge of one of the tables. The table sits on the edge of the sump and is supported by two wood legs and a pvc leg. The pvc leg is inside the sump and the missing leg is the back of the sump as mentioned earlier.
The pics may help my weak descriptions.
Front view of the sump.
The skimmer from the side. You can see the drain line, it is directed into the utility sink for now. After I get the skimmer dialed in I will build a pvc line to the drain behind the uv sterilizers.
The flange I built for the collection cup.
A view above the sump. If you look in the water you can see the pvc leg. I also need to dress up the auto top off line; I had to remove it from its original location when I built the table.
I'm an advocator of Bare-Bottoms....Reefs that is.
Vince aka VINNIE 
Wow! Very Nice!
