will post pics of mine running within the hour. just got it in the mail this morning.

will it fit in the back of a red sea max?

I have mine in place, just not running atm. I need to find the CD it came with to figure out how to properly tune it.

coralcor- it is about 3"x3"x10", very small, I would think so.

LxWxH right?

Yup, I took some pics for you, too.

The second one is it in my sump, its a 10G AGA and the chamber it sits in is about 4x4.

cool got to find a tape measure. it works good? i bet any thing is better thank the stock red sea max skimmer

how about micro bubbles. my red sea max skimmer lets a tun of micro bubbles off

If you go back to pg2 the measurements are a little more accurate

I'm still tuning it, so idk how well it works yet, seems to be good, but the proof is in the skimmate, of which I have none as of now.

It blasts out a lot of microbubbles.

rely? in to the tank?

Well its in my sump, so it hits a prefilter and bubbletrap before the return pump, so not in my case.

Microbubbles in the display could be a deal breaker for some.

yea big one for me!

Break in could also affect the bubble issue, I know some of the 9002's are bubble factory's when they are new.

thats what i was thinking too.

After mine broke in it was not releasing any noticeable bubbles

hows it work. got any pic's of skimmate?

I have to get one setup again. The one I had setup, one of my good customers forced me to let him take it home to his tank (only one I had in the store at that time). I will get another setup ASAP to try and get some pictures of.

Kim

sweet thanks! i rely need a better skimmer. and this one would save me like 100$!!!!

I agree, however, it will be a while before we'll be able to see those results.

My Deltec MC500 produced q good amount of micro bubbles. After a few weeks of breaking in, however, they disappeared.

oh how loud is it? i had another question but i cant remember it.

Not very, a little bit of slurping, but its still breaking in after all.

I can't hear it over my overflow, I'll put it tat way.

When I had mine running while doing a little testing it was more of a motor hum almost like some of the MH ballasts. Not bad though just noticable.

the slurping i can fix. know a few mods if i can find the link i can post it.
and i can just stick it in to the wire chamber of my RSM. but i bet any thing is quieter than this skimmer i have now.

The slurping might also be from the way you have it wedged up against the glass it might be sucking in on it. When I had mine up it never made a slurping noise.

Just finished setting it up so i obviously cant say how well it works yet but it looks to be a pretty solid product so far.

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as for microbubbles, yes it spits out micro bubbles, but its not bad enough for me to return it, and if it did get really bad, im sure there would be a way to deflect/confine them, with a bit of plastic.

i was able to fit it in my eclipse 3 hood perfectly.

collection cup looks small! but in this case smaller= better

ya the only noise it makes is a bit of slurping, but its not as loud as my filter.

Will it fit in the back of an ap12 with hood. I'm out of town till Monday so I can't measure. I'm too excited to wait. LOL

how are these doing?

These are too big to fit in any of the rear chambers of 12/14g AIOs. It could fit in some of the 24/29g AIOs with a little massaging to the rim of the tank.

this picture is after about 2 days...it was a little hard to adjust but i think i finally got it right....water is starting to get nice and brown! 2/3 of the water in the cup was clear water when i was still adjusting so it got mixed with about 1/3 skim.....u get the picture, ill post another pic after another couple days with it now adjusted properly.

I'll definitely want to know if this thing skims well.

For those with a JBJ 24DX, it fits in the chambers with just a little trimming of the lip on the back top of the tank. Just installed mine about an hour ago.

A new skimmer !!!

If thats 2/3 clear water, it's already doing better than the Biocube skimmer. I wish it would fit in the BC14. I'm just going to make my own.

No hardware store I find carries weldon
Thus no DIY skimmer since Weldon is $20 shipped to hawaii,
in the end it would cost as much as this skimmer.

you dont have to use weldon.

PVC cleaner welds acrylic as well. ive built tanks and sumps using PVC cleaner with no problems.

MEK (Methyl ethyl keytone) will work to bond acrylic too.

I'm going to call around

im getting one!

home depot and lowes should have a can of that stuff in their paint department. check it out

I don't ever recall a Lowe's when i was stationed in Hawai'i but I know there is a Home depot by Aiea but then again completely different island.

The big island is pretty empty compared to Honolulu.
It's grown,there are at least two dozen more franchises in Kona that have been started in the pass 6 years.

I kind of love that about the Kona though is much more laid back, kind of like Kauai. The Big Island kind of holds a special place for me though I hiked up Mauna Kea in 07 on New years eve at midnight hard to describe how beautiful it is up there.

I just picked one of these up. I need to fine tune it and get it to skim. Manual sucks. I am going to use it on my 20 long frag tank i am setting up at the moment.

Adolfo

Following along as this skimmer was just brought to my attention on another forum!! Anyone know how well it'll fit in an AP24 yet? Also, if it won't fit in the chamber, can it be used as a HOB?

This skimmer will not work hang on the back, must be inside the tank.


Kim

1st post! I enjoy this site a lot.

I also have a BC skimmer and after moding it with a longer tube it still only skims when i turkey baste...kinda a POS in my opinion.

Any new pics on the skimmate of this new skimmer? what about the micro bubble issues? Thanks.

Chris

to Nano-Reef.com!

Mine has broken in very well after about a week. It puts out very few microbubbles now and is very quiet.



This is what its been pulling!

I think it was a great purchase, for the price you can't beat it!

Hope that helps!

wow, that was quick. Ask and yee shall receive! thanks for the welcome!

that looks pretty wet though???????? are you trying to wet skim?
I have an 8 gallon with an AC-70 fuge with ATO so it i wet skimmed that much my salinity would dive quite a bit

what tank are you using this on? is it stocked heavy?