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Don't buy them if seller is from North Carolina. They are not Nassarius Vibex, they are mud snails, ilynassa. You can get them at the beach easily but they don't live long in warm water.
Home Depot and Lowes truly suck. Checked on-line and they had the 3/4 inch grommet went to both stores and nothing. I ordered it from Amazon inside Lowes and will be here tomorrow. The elbow from pump to skimmer says 3/4" on it.
I feel jinxed right now; 3 pumps in a short and now I noticed one heater in sump had a lose cap. I did pull it out to be safe.
It still looks enclosed so I need to know if its safe to still use, pic below.
I have the ASM running but I doubt at max capacity. I have to adjust it too much to get any foam into the cup. If I pull the tube any higher will disconnect from the skimmer.
New pumps is around $115 for either skimmer.
I think I will take nightmarepl up on his offer of mailing it for fix to...
Water change and maintenance cleaning today. I discovered my ASM G3 skimmer was starting and stopping. I pulled the pump and the impeller is very rough I cleaned it but wouldn't start back up. I ended putting a little bit of Vaseline on it and it worked but not functioning 100%.
I decided to...
I plan to start setting the tank up this week and have a few questions.
1) What size pump do I need?
2) Can I use a flex hose from pump to return inside the chamber?
3) What type of filtration should be used?
Thanks for the assist.