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View Poll Results: What is the best skimmer you have used? | |
Aqua C remora
|     | 8 | 30.77% | |
Red Sea Prizm
|    | 1 | 3.85% | |
CPR BacPac
|    | 1 | 3.85% | |
Coralife Super skimmer
|    | 5 | 19.23% | |
Euro Reef RS
|    | 3 | 11.54% | |
Other
|    | 8 | 30.77% | 
04-14-2008, 11:51 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lynnwood, WA
Posts: 75
Karma: 69
 |  Top ten list of skimmers???
I have a 40 gallon breeder tank that is up and cycling (sigh).
I keep getting conflicting reviews on skimmers. So if you guys could help me out I would be so greatful 
I am looking for a good skimmer that will work well with no mods and not break down.
So I figured a top ten (or five) list would be wonderful. Thank you. | 
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04-15-2008, 12:01 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Loved AquaC Remora in 55. (drain plug option in collection cup a must!)
EV-180 in 125 works flawlessly.
Guess I am just partial to AquaC (which are all I have ever used, except for old skilter)  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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04-15-2008, 02:14 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 335
Karma: 181
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well i am using cpr bakpak pretty good for the price i got it for, around 75, i heard that octo HOB is doing pretty good also, upgrading my tank so i got a bigger unit that will come in the way, probably selling mine cpr soon.
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55g AGA 55lb LR, 55lb sand, CPR skimmer, magnum 350, koralia 1.
in progress:
120g RR, 40 sump/fuge, panworld 50pxx, 2 x 250 Lumen Bright Reeflux 12k coralvue ballst, 2x54 t5 current usa, 24 led moonlight, shallow sand bed, 2x Koralia 4, around 200lbs rock, msx 200, aquac phosphate reactor... If you see something better out there, let me know. most of the parts still being process. | |
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04-15-2008, 02:39 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 1,066
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Deltec !
Such a pleasure to operate. | |
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04-15-2008, 03:26 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
Posts: 3,408
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_________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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04-15-2008, 03:32 AM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 1,066
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Nice link Otty!
Thanks. | |
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04-15-2008, 04:44 AM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 335
Karma: 181
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man you guys are like hawks, circling around and wait for a thread and then dump so much info out | |
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04-15-2008, 07:39 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: chicago
Posts: 84
Karma: 121
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Deltec, DAS, ETSS, PM Bullet, RK2 Commercial | |
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04-15-2008, 07:49 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
Posts: 3,309
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I've been thru Via Aqua Multi Skimmer with the handy dandy UV built in(Junk) to the Jebo=Junko, then on the the Seaclone(crap also) then Finally turned on to the AquaC Remora and I absolutely love it, except I still have millions of bubbles, but I'm over it. It gets a lot of nasty green to almost brown gunk out. Yes, Omard the drain is a good thing to have! Ya know, with the money I spent on those pieces of chit, I could have bought the AquaC and some other stuff with it.......... | |
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04-15-2008, 08:00 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 4,286
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The DAS is a hell of a little skimmer we use them on a few tanks they kick some butt for their size .. I have never used a HO skimmer I won't use one But a ETSS man I have been for yrs and trs But I went to a Bullet last yr a great skimmer I use a deltec and several others around clients and such At the end of the day a deltec I think is way way way overly priced and rated compared to and used as real world skimmer.. Took a Deltec out and put a comparable Bullet 1 in the and that bullet skimmed out stuff the owner said he had never seen before (: Said it stank ??? and was really black and thicker then his old Del ever was.. But I thought this was a HOB skimmer thread ? _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson)
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