Coralvue Octopus SRO's and Waste Collectors

[Wildman926]

I purchased a pair of Octopus SRO's in 1000 and 2000, and a pair of their waste collector units with the built in overflow protection. I am only using the 1000 and one collector currently. The 2000 and second waste collector is for a 150g conversion at a later date.

I am using the 1000 on my 110g, and I can say am very pleased. It replaced an Eshopps PSK-150, which did an excellent job. I have always like the Octopus line of skimmers, and decided to make a switch.

After a thorough fw bath, it was put in production, and it has performed flawlessly. It is sitting in 5.5" of water, gate valve needs 5 turns in for dry skim, 5 1/4 turns for wet skim, literally. I put a rubber connector, 90* elbow, straight tube, and 45* elbow to direct the output in front of my return pump. I had to build a stand to raise the skimmer to have the waste cup output higher than the waste collector to drain properly. I also removed the straight plug adaptor on the collector to 90* elbow, 3/8" tube adaptor x 1/2" npt. I also put an 3/8" 90* elbow on the output of the waste cup, and used 3/8" clear vinyl tubing to connect the two. That is the only drawbacks that I have. Here are some pics ( I have since moved the plug to the back/outside of the stand) -

[Wildman926]

Can you believe this?

After I posted this thread, I decided to use the second waste collector on my 80g, and hook it up to my Eshopps PSK-100 that uses an Atman PH2000 from my old PSK-150. After I finished, I thought that I had the skimmer set where it was, and walked away. But it was not. It overflowed and the waste collector's built in overflow protection kicked in and shut off the skimmer as it should! Very cool!!