recommend me a skimmer

[thirty5]

How is the skimmer working? Have you cleaned the becketts in it? Or evern your pumps and such to make sure that you are getting the optimal air flow??

 

[ireefny]

same observation, very sensitive to changes such as feeding & water parameters, I was happy with my Euro Reef but was too tall to fit under my stand so I had to change, skims great, easy to take skimmate out, overall Im happy with it.

 

[fritz]

they are awesome if all you feed is flake food :tired: :irked:

This is what I mean by out of context bandwagon bashing. As is VERY documented here and on other sites certain foods will change the viscosity of your water and effect bubble production. BMs are sensitive to this as all skimmers are. BMs are in fact more sensitive to it which I'm not sure is a bad thing. My deltec would stop bubble production when I fed mysis and after a few hours it would resume. I corrected this by having my RK2 keep my skimmer off for half an hour after the '"feed" button was pressed. The same works with the BM

Also different BMs react differently to this stimulus. The 200 series will just have the foam collapse, the 250s because of the dual pumps, when the air collapses it will pull much more water which can cause an overflow. FWIW some people on here experienced this as John did on his 250 while others who were feeding the same mysis block from Jim and Russ did not experience this. I don't know why that is.

If you feed foods that are known to effect skimmate production it is best to have these on a controller or some device that can shut them down while the food and it's oils are in the water. IME it only takes about 15 minutes for that all to dissipate and then the skimmer can come back on with no problem.

John got rid of his skimmer because he didn't want to get a controller, I got rid of mine because I downgraded, Rich got rid of his because he got out of the hobby, Cali got rid of his because he won't use any skimmer for more than 6 months, etc. My BM 200 was the best skimmer I've owned and to all the "They sucK" sayers, what skimmer would you recommend in that price range at that wattage which would perform better? As was stated many times by ATI "We weren't looking to build the worlds best skimmer, just the best skimmer at that price."

 

[Davidl919]

For the money and the bang. Nothing Beats My ASM-G3. No mod and I just emptied and cleaned this cup saturday night. Only skimmers I have seen work as hard are Deltec and Bubblemasters but your paying the price.

I love :inlove:my skimmer. I look at it and say "I would be nowhere without you" and close the door before it sees my tears...... Lol, It's pretty good.