quick little DIY Skimmer silencer

[Kevin McG]

As some of you may know the Solana skimmer is a bit noisy due to the air getting sucked in so I made a little silencer and now you can hear nothing

Here's a couple of pictures that are pretty easy to see what I did.

One note, this wasn't my idea I copied it from a thread over at RC

 

[Kevin McG]

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[coralcor]

hows it work?

 

[Kevin McG]

hows it work?

Perfectly! nice and quiet and no air sucking sound

 

[afboundguy]

What is that a little paint thing you get at like an art store?

Great idea by the way... I'm gonna have to try that out...

 

[jbishop]

This is a great DIY Kevin.

 

[coralcor]

might try that on my red sea max stock skimmer. think it will work? and how dose it make it quieter?

 

[Kevin McG]

Don't really understand the logistics behind how it works but it definetly muffles the sound.

I bought the little container at Micheals craft store and had some 1/4" tubing around here. Cost me .99

A lot of people are using pill cases or even the old film containers.

 

[Cherokee_Dude]

I'm guessing that the 'sound' (Really vibrations) are isolated and canceled within the container.

 

[Shenlung]

it works similar to a muffler, the sound waves generated by the sucking air are reverberated in the chamber and can't easily make it through a length of hose to get out, since the intake is effectively doubled at the other end of the container, there is less than half the noise being made outside the container. It's not actually making it quieter, it's just redirecting the sound long enough for it to be worn out before it exits.

If you want to make it even quieter, you could put a cotton ball in the container. if it's "fluffed" enough so as not to restrict airflow, it'd make the thing dead silent.

...wicked good DIY, wish I had thought of it....I'll have to make one of these when I get a "real" skimmer lol

 

[willray]

I use pvc pipe with caps.

 

[Jennifer]

Cool little diy - very useful indeed.
Thanks for sharing that 1.

 

[Kevin McG]

I wanted to add that I places a cotton ball in there as suggested by a few people and not I can't hear anything