DIy Post Trim Turbo Surface Skimmer

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Ghazanfar Ghori
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DIy Post Trim Turbo Surface Skimmer

Post by Ghazanfar Ghori »

When I prune stem plants, the foreground etc, inevitably there ends up being a ton of tiny plant clippings, leaves
etc floating around the tank. Its a royal pain to fish it all out with a net. So, here's a solution.

Parts needed:
Powerhead
Bottle
Filter foam

Cut the bottom off the bottle and stuff the filter foam into it.
Attach the bottle to the powerhead's INTAKE.
Invert it and stick it inside your tank - just slightly below the surface.
It sucks all the debris into itself, the foam traps it, clean water exits the powerhead. In a few minutes,
your water is pristine again. The heck with that net!

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I just pruned my hairgrass foreground in my 215G tank. Stuck this fella on there for 10 minutes
and it cleaned up the mess for me. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

BTW - not my idea - saw it in an old Aquajournal picture in the background.
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Post by Jeff120 »

HA! That is sweet!
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Post by JMLenke »

It is also a ton cheaper then a surface extractor.
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Post by neilanh »

Where was this a few hours ago when I netted up 14bazillion pounds of duckweed?
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Post by Ghazanfar Ghori »

A few hours ago I was making it :)
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Post by krisw »

A great idea!
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Post by maddog10 »

Nice!
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Post by Judi »

Oh my, that's brilliant! And so simple, even I can do it!

I was just looking at all the bits of leaves and junk I need to fish out of my 29. Going to try this instead this morning!
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Post by Aaron »

I love little ingenious things like this that are so simple you wonder why you never thought of it.
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Post by Rick Dotson »

Duckweed exterminator! I am making one now.
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