DIY Skimmer Waste Collector

[@MikeFallen13]

Jake: *Gets beautiful Reef Octopus sump* Also Jake: Lets turn the auto topoff reservoir into a poop tank!

[@trureef2319]

How are u going to keep that stinky smell out. Being the waste area is open.

[@dailycoral]

Good use of space in my opinion vs a separate waste collector taking up space; just cover the view window like you said, and use a shop vac for a deep clean ever few months. Nice diy idea 👍

[@kcstunna8222]

I’m sorry you lost me with this one. Good luck cleaning that out.

[@Halfwire]

I fail to see how this is a good idea .

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

You didn’t watch until the end!

[@kcstunna8222]

@@ReefBuildersVideo No I watch the whole video. Putting a pump in it would suck it out but it most likely will get clogged over time. You still will have to clean the area out which would be a pain. Thats just my opinion at the end of the day its your tank.

[@busterbros212]

@@kcstunna8222 Agreed, i'd rather empty the cup.

[@eddiediederich7244]

You somehow literally read my mind. I was messing with the tank today thinking about how I dont empty the skimmer cup enough and was thinking about making a additional collection container for it, and here you come with a video about it.

[@Mike__B]

I appreciate the videos Jake... that said, not behind you on this one. Nice big open window that will be sewage brown... nope... not going to happen.

[@Brmmsilva]

What about the salinity impact of that Wet skim you just did? You were removing salt water, and ATO fresh water. I understand that through regular skimming that should not be an issue, but in that case, it was a substancial salt water removal and adding Fresh. I'm curious about this one...

[@shanephillips8403]

Can you share info on the “water transfer pump”? I want one.

[@BahamaLlamaCoral]

Harbor Freight carries them. They're cheap but clog easy.

[@Odrakan]

Bahama Llama Coral or amazon

[@EvanMontgomery]

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[@tonybilodeau3872]

Thank you very much for the vid...can't wait for the next one

[@rc2300s2r]

The long thin step bit is a great thing to have for drilling plastic/acrylic in the reefing hobby. Doesn’t bind and a lot less prone to causing cracks in material.

[@robertkern393]

Hows the effect in terms of decreased salinity? Exchanging seawater with fresh water from ATO should be considered according to tank size, shouldnt it?

[@tahitaisnefamily1]

merci beaucoup pour toutes tes vidéos et reportage je te suis depuis des années tout d'abord quand j'ai habité à Tahiti et que je pratiquer la plongée professionnel et donc beaucoup de plongée sur les récifs et maintenant je te suis depuis la France et plus particulièrement de Normandie encore merci beaucoup

[@vadovelocity9831]

Hey love your videos i have a 80gallon but wonder when u film corals do u have any filter on the lends or shoot raw im wondering how u make the blue light not flood the corals color and make it look natural how our eyes are looking at.?

[@12GallonNano]

A brown tank full of the nastiest smelling that is open and can easily be seen.... You may have thought about peristaltic pumps and that little siphon gizmo but the walls are still going to get coated in poop and just continue to smell. Its going to be a hassle to wash and fully empty.

[@RevaReefs]

Any body else waiting for the DIY collector? Or that would be making a hole on your 2k$ sump to make it a poop display?

[@callumcollins612]

Personally I would have plumped the skimmer waste pipe directly to the drain.

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

Recipe for disaster

[@fatheadedfish]

Reef Builders because it could empty whole sump?

[@maokinus]

Seems like skimming that wet would really mess with salinity.

[@volteface69]

Merci Jake pour cette vidéo mais j'ai pas bien compris pourquoi ce réservoir pour l'ecumeur ??? 👍👍👍

[@neilsreefaquarium9530]

Great vid Jake. If it is doing a wet skim and taking quite a lot out and the ato is kicking in. Would this not affect the solinity?

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

Yes, but it's a fish tank so salinity is less important, and I'll occasionally fill the ATO reservoir with SW to keep it up

[@1cubsfan4life]

Love my Avast waste collector

[@chrisMacDonald472]

Just wondering, will that affect your salinity?

[@MrLawrencegreene]

How is the sump's drain plumbing holding up ?

[@ExopMan]

I could maybe see this being worthwhile on a very high nutrient/heavy fish tank but generally don't see it as being practical imo. That reservoir is going to get disgusting and smaller systems won't like the associated salinity changes. Also adding more components that can fail.

[@fadetoblack.-]

100% agree with you what a waste of money for just a fish tank. But he probably got it for free.

[@jawadibrahim366]

Wouldn't it work if you just poke a silicone tube hooked to a dosing pump in the skimmer cap and set the pump to remove waste water straight from the skimmer cup?

[@justinswinney3344]

You should invest in a stepper drill bit

[@masiehmitra8273]

Hi Jake. You might have mentioned it in the previous video, but i somehow missed it.. U do have salt water in the top off reservoir, right? Otherwise you will depleting the salinity by removing wetskimmed salt water and topping back with RO water. I really like the idea of concentrated waterchange, thank you!!

[@reefandchill4466]

The quarantine mullet is coming in nice.

[@kingincrimson]

if you have a drain nearby, why not have the hose from the skimmer cup drain directly to it???

[@michaelisakov1108]

What about neck cleaning? And draining the big container?

[@jamesweil3470]

My question is, how do you get the skimate out of that reservoir when you can't remove it? I would love to see you set up a Syphon on it. LOL 😂

[@glennrudolph]

I mean, I understand the concept. I just don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s gonna be more frustrating checking salinity, correcting salinity, and emptying and cleaning that chamber than it would be to just empty the cup on a dry skim.

[@cameroncarter3253]

Glenn Rudolph it’s fish only, quit trippin

[@glennrudolph]

Cameron CArter 🤣🤫 how does a fish only system relate to my comment?? Also, I gotta find me some reef builder merch. Y’all have the best shirts!!!

[@battyjoe]

I have a DIY 15ltr waste tank that my skimmer fills. I used a 3 pin plug that I placed on the top of the tanks and have wired to my apex. When the waste shorts the terminals it sets an alarm and trips off the skimmer.

[@TLASPEK]

Always enjoy your videos Jake. This solution is for procrastinators though. You still have to get the junk out but this time there is much more. Plus the smell that stays longer in your sump. I love the DIY gravity fed ATO btw.

[@iczerone2000]

Always good to see a updated video from RB. As I suspected, you would use a pump to pump out the nasties from the ATO chamber to a drain. However, in my opinion. I would have just kept the float switch on the protein skimmer and just go buy a long silicone tubing and directly plumbed it into the drain. That would save me an extra ATO external tank for another system and just use the ATO chamber. But that's just me.

[@AndrewHarrisonmusic]

What is the flexible piping from your overflow to the sump called?

[@gentlemanreefer6105]

Can you please give us a reference for that little fanstastic batteries operated water collector? I want one. Just finished emptying my sump... I wish I had had one. Thank you so much for your always excellent posts. Keep on with the good work. Greetings from Geneva, Switzerland

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

'liquid transfer pump'

[@gentlemanreefer6105]

@@ReefBuildersVideo Thank you again. Just ordered it ;)

[@snowymatrix]

This would remind me too much of visiting somewhere off the grid where the toilet drains into a cesspit and then having the truck come to empty it. It would bring back all the sights and smells of that experience especially in a hot country! ;-)

[@CLOWNFISH69]

Better to have gone with Reef Octopus waste collection unit with auto-shut off. It also features a 10min delay startup too. Been using one for 12 yrs now and is a life saver.

[@daanvdw34]

Have fun cleaning that non-removable waste collector 🥴🤔

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

You didn’t watch until the end 😵

[@12GallonNano]

@@ReefBuildersVideo Empty ≠ Clean

[@undergroundreefs6523]

Can the holes be drilled in the lid to keep the warranty? peristaltic pump would get clogged if its smaller tubing and real thick skimate. Also highly recommend the apex for this. what i do is take a float valve and install it on a 5 gallon bucket, then the bucket can just be taken to the sink and dumped out. another thing is if that skimmer is putting off so much you plan on emptying that daily then your salinity is gonna be all over the place. another reason to have apex on there to monitor salinity, definitely if it was someone running a reef tank. And the apex could automatically run a pump to empty it, could even have an auto cleaning function in there where it cycles water through it a few times and a wavemaker stirs it around.

[@undergroundreefs6523]

and if you wanted to get crazy could automatically correct your salinity with apex as well.

[@josephbrearley9776]

That’s a great idea I’m just going to apply the same process to a 5g bucket then it’s simple to empty 👌. Also it’s like a water change between water changes.

[@hokemspitter]

How about calling the emptying system the Crud Flood Fuge Pump?

[@guntherwolff9382]

Your 1st idea is not always the best idea

[@y.a.d1737]

so many videos in so little time, i'm always welcomed to wonderful morning here in india, thanks to u!

[@Odrakan]

Wow Amazing i want this 🥰

[@Mo-vx8mj]

LOL bro are you sure about this? BTW That tool at the end can you please share a link? I need that

[@EvanMontgomery]

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[@kevinw7044]

Genius. 😀 although I still have my doubts about odours. Something tells me that you will resolve this. This tank has me thinking about a larger fish only system with a bunch of Pyramid Butterfly fish.

[@tashfiqmannan]

why not just thread the drain pump directly into collection cup??

[@drewjanes307]

hmmm skim away water change... gonna try that out lol

[@tonyhalik1442]

Sorry...You "kill" this bt sump - twice (ATO and WC).

[@NYCityCichlids]

Not a bad idea.

[@rickyricardo75]

Wet skimming has no real advantage on dry skimming. I had a similar method, however, I only collected the poo on a 5gal bucket outside the sump. I also had a calc hydroxide reactor which compensated my loss in salinity and I think it's not your case so you'd better watch out.

[@danceresort]

Get an Apex, hook the switch up to the Apex, tell that to then turn a pump on to empty the Skimmer cup and send you an alert. Far better solution.

[@rc2300s2r]

AROW 🏹system. Automatic Removal Of Waste

[@mohamedsahber3608]

I mean, what is wrong with a portable waste collector?

[@zafishguy5166]

Well I mean it works just hope you don't love staring at sumps.

[@jessearmstrong9843]

I want to cut that ponytail off So bad.

[@m4a1JAY]

I would have just drained it to a container that I can easily pick up and take it somewhere to dump it, not destroy my sump.

[@miltonenglish1679]

Why would you not just put the waste in a 5 gal bucket instead of making that beautiful sump dirty and stinky?

[@BraddaMarlon]

More like a sump septic tank

[@vascojardim6703]

This one I don’t get.... the waste collector by definition should be easy to disconnect and take away to empty and clean, whereas the ATO is likely never going to need cleaning. So the waste colector should be a stand alone reservoir that can be moved while the ATO can be a fixed part of the sump 🤔

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

you didn't watch until the end . . .

[@nosumpreefing8287]

The poo macgyver

[@michaelbaldwin3356]

That just doubled your work, have clean that with a shop vac then clean the shop vac. Not to mention all the stank the shop vac going to be blowing out.

[@Mantube124]

thats a no no for me.. i can smell it already hahahaha.

[@sufficient.enough]

Just paint the waste collector don’t go into the work replacing the panel :)

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

Yeah that's kinda what I'm thinking - not replacing but just put a cover over it, maybe even paint

[@sufficient.enough]

Reef Builders hell yeah just thought paint would be easy some red or white krylon if you ever want it off you can scrape it off :) anyways love the setup underneath looking good ❤️

[@TheFrankyguzman]

this seems weird.... why not just empty out that cup.

[@braveheartreefer525]

Hey Jake

[@fadetoblack.-]

What a waste. On just fish. Jake probably got all that stuff for free. So he could afford to waste it on just a fish tank.

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

interesting no one ever mentioned how much it was 'worth it' when I set up new gear on fun reef systems. It's all relative isn't it? Many people would say that the entire hobby is a waste of money, it's all about what you like and I just happen to like ONE fish tank among TEN reef systems . . .

[@fadetoblack.-]

@@ReefBuildersVideo touche!🥂

[@BraddaMarlon]

This ain't it chief! Should have turned it into a fuge. But that's just me

[@acotyac]

Skimming that wet and filling back with ato is going to mess with salinity.

[@pedromuslera4986]

Yeah, how will you be managing the salinity?

[@ReefBuildersVideo]

It’s a fish tank so they are forgiving on exact salinity but will sometimes fill the ATO with seawater

[@pedromuslera4986]

@@ReefBuildersVideo thank you.

[@emcachia]

Totally agree. You need some automated system to replace what you skim if its that large a volume. Been thinking about something similar, but did not implement it because of the drop in salinity. Some sort of peristaltic pump pair perhaps.

[@miketube6662]

Really wtf

[@Arie_Idaho_Reef]

Howdy