its a beast of a skimmer......i can't even believe i was considering getting the A150 model. IMO.....the A110 is over rated for my tank. i don't get much skimmate out of it b/c i have a very clean system. i prob have what most consider is a low bioload of fish, and i only feed the tank with frozen foods once or twice a week.
reason why i'm doing this is that i had nasty dictoya algae outbreak last spring, and it broke out again after i moved. i'm doing a good job choking it and the bubble algae out of the tank now.......
but at the current time, i almost wish i had a skimmer with a slimmer and shoter neck so i could skim wetter. b/c i've got it set to skim as wet as i can get it and i'm not getting much until after i feed the tank.
i'll also have to consider re-doing the overflow plumbing to plumb it directly to the skimmer.....i've heard that works wonders.
i got mine locally from a LFS that gets in H&S stuff. i was considering getting it directly from finsreef.......as i actually lived 230miles away from the LFS. but then i'd have to pay shipping.
but when i bought the skimmer from the LFS....they charged me an extra $50 (shipping/stocking fee) which i thought was BS......esspecially considering it arrived with like 45 other skimmers at the same time, delivered by the owner of H&S USA while he was driving north to a convention. so it wasn't even shipped via a shipping carrier.