Suggest a skimmer

[joseney21]

I have been given a $350 allowance for a skimmer, what are your suggestions???

My tank is a 90g mixed reef, possibly making a move in the future to mostly SPS.

 

[aaron23]

i wish i had a $350.00 allowance for a skimmer... rather and allowance all together.

 

[joseney21]

thats the amount allowed (miraculously) by my wife, found it kinda surprising myself

 

[gforce6]

Jose, save another $100, and hunt for used Deltec.

 

[loismustdie]

hate to say it, but wait until you got enough cash to get what you want if you plan to upgrade to SPS.

 

[waltercat]

Remora Pro from Aqua C gets my vote. They run a little more noisy than others, but they really skim alot of gunk outta the water. Get it with a Mag and an overflow box.

http://www.proteinskimmer.com/products/Remora.htm

 

[lazyreefer]

auqa c pro might be little under powered for a 90. do you have a sump? if so maybe a ASM skimmer or a octopus skimmer

link for the octopus skimmer: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=749634

link for ASM skimmer

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=804099

 

[jawwad2004]

Do what Gforce says, get a deltec. actually there is a guy on Reefcentral that is selling his deltec AP600 for 575, go for it man. PM me if you want his contact

 

[jawwad2004]

By the way Joseny, I just spoke with the guy from Reefcentral's deltec forum and he still has it available. I asked him to hold it down until I get a response from you. He just purchased it like 2 weeks ago, hes upgrading the skimmer. His ID on RC is lunchbucket

 

[stingnyc]

jose,

you can try this skimmer:

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10637

its a cheap alt to deltec.

 

[jawwad2004]

Dude is selling his APF600 on RC for $520

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=806915

 

[joseney21]

By the way Joseny, I just spoke with the guy from Reefcentral's deltec forum and he still has it available. I asked him to hold it down until I get a response from you. He just purchased it like 2 weeks ago, hes upgrading the skimmer. His ID on RC is lunchbucket

jawwad thanks alot dude, i appreciate that....but i think i'm going with an asm G4X or a DAS EX1

 

[joseney21]

this is what i think i'm getting

http://www.aquamartonline.com/catalog/item/2438561/2056877.htm

pending specs on the das from sean

 

[Vic8361]

Hey Jose,
check out what spazz from RC can do for you. He really know's his stuff and makes great skimmers.
When I do get the money to buy a big skimmer I will buy it from him. Here's his web site that he's just getting started.

http://www.aquaticacrylics.com/

Vic

 

[Vic8361]

Jose here's the skimmer I am going to get from him once I could afford it.

 

[NYPDFrogman]

I have an Asm G4+ with sedra 9000 skimmer kicks Arse and is alot of bang for the buck! simple recirulation mod and gravity fed increased the skimmers effectiveness greatly!

 

[kimoyo]

Vic, is that a wetneck in there?

Jose here's the skimmer I am going to get from him once I could afford it.

 

[jawwad2004]

Hey Jose,
check out what spazz from RC can do for you. He really know's his stuff and makes great skimmers.
When I do get the money to buy a big skimmer I will buy it from him. Here's his web site that he's just getting started.

http://www.aquaticacrylics.com/

Vic

Yooo, I cant believe you found this guy too! He's crazy with it! For a larger tank, I just might go with him.

 

[Vic8361]

NYPDFROGMAN I agree the G-4X is a good skimmer for the buck. I actualy have had a G-4 for a few years with the sedra 5000 pump on it and think the 5000 is way to small for that size body I never like the way it skimmed. I have an other sedra 5000 for it and am going to run both pumps recirculating. That should hold me over till I could save the mony to buy the skimmer from spazz. His skimmer is a much better quality than the asm skimmers and i would like to run the skimmer externally wich is hard to do with the asm skimmers.
BTW how is your hand doing.

Kimoyo, yes it's a wet neck and works pretty good to. Also did you see the gate valves befor the venturi? You could adjust the air intake with them. it's a adjustable venturi. thats why he has the air meters on them so you could fine tune it.

jawwad2004m, Oh yea I have been following spazz's threads for a while now. I beleive he's going to be for recirculating skimmers as the guy from barr aquatics is for becketts.

Vic

 

[ctxmonitor]

vic, are those skimmer using OR 2700 pump to drive them?