oh ya! shiny and beautiful! Once it gets its slime coat it will surprise you@twilliard This showed up today. Installed it this evening, it hasn't started collecting skimmate yet.
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oh ya! shiny and beautiful! Once it gets its slime coat it will surprise you@twilliard This showed up today. Installed it this evening, it hasn't started collecting skimmate yet.
I recently swapped out my skimmer for a lifereef. wow what a difference. it took me a day to get it dialed in and its pulling out all kinds of gunk already that my other skimmer wasn't. so far I am extremely impressed
oh ya! shiny and beautiful! Once it gets its slime coat it will surprise you
Jeff makes the best equipment! I would go with a lifereef skimmer. I have an entire lifereef set up, sump, skimmer, refugium and they're all amazing.Hey man I just talked with Jeff at Lifereef and his product seems way my legit that the other styles of skimmer! How are you liking it? I'm thinking of purchasing the SV S2-24!
Jeff makes the best equipment! I would go with a lifereef skimmer. I have an entire lifereef set up, sump, skimmer, refugium and they're all amazing.
Nothing better than a Royal Exclusiv skimmer. Its what the rest of the industry copies. An why a Vertex looks like a Royal Exclusiv is that a few years ago Royal Exclusiv made their skimmer line. But they do not do that any more.
Now, That's what I'd call... "Merry Christmas" to myself@twilliard This showed up today. Installed it this evening, it hasn't started collecting skimmate yet.
If your on a budget it's hard to beat a good Aquamaxx. I've run them and love'mI have aquamaxx and reef octopus and both perform pretty well. However neither is quiet to my ears.
Good Point: I was soo happy when Royal Exclusiv opened a USA location. Haven't needed them but I know they're here if I do.I'm pretty amazed how quiet the Orphek Helix 5000 is. I can't even hear it over all the other stuff going on in my sump.
Definitely not the case with the becket venturi on the Korallen Zucht skimmer. It was pretty loud. It performed well, I wasn't a fan of the pump, or the complete unaviailability of parts in the US, or the largely non existent warranty service of KZ in the US.
Totally Agree! If you've never owned and dialed in a Bubble King you just can't relateI've used these in this order
Nautilus (some crap on first summer the LFS setup with my first tank 10 years ago)
ASM G2 (Decent at the time)
ATI (Way too fussy. Got it about 8 years ago used it for 2 weeks)
Deltec (Great skimmer, wasn't built to well though and cracked pretty quickly. I repaired it with weld on. About 6 years ago)
H & S (Extremly good skimmer, built like a tank unfortunately not made anymore) Both this one and Deltec use aquabee pumps at the time
Tank Hiatus
Reef Octopus SRO 5000 (Mehh 3 Years ago)
The one and only skimmer I will ever need. I think ?
Bubble King Super Marin 250 (Super consistent, set it and forget it, very well made and now great customer service too). Look at the pic below. You don'y get such dark thick production with such ease of tuning and no daily tinkering with every skimmer. You may get it from a cheaper skimmer but it won't be as easy.
I will mention that I did use a double cone 130 on a tank similar in size to what you are getting and it was too big for the tank. The tank I tried it on is a tank in my office and I don't feed it like crazy or do anything that pushes the limits in there. My bio load is very light and the skimmer did not produce. I changed it out for an extremely small skimz skimmer.