- Location
- Ohio
There was this local guy that was looking for a skimmer for his 75g tank. He said he bought a skimmer, but it was too big. That he would trade for a smaller skimmer. I offered to trade my skimmer (Berlin triplepass) for his and explained to him that it took two weeks to break it in rather than the 48 hours it says in the instructions. I asked him what kind he had. He said that he had a Reef Octopus NWB 200. So I looked it up online. It was better for my tank than what I had, so I called the guy later and told him I was ok with it and asked if he wanted any money too for it. He said he just wanted a skimmer to fit his tank. So I was up at 6am this morning yanking my skimmer out and cleaning it and boxing it up for the guy. I figured I could just pop in the new skimmer after I rinse it out good. The guy couldn't bring it himself so he had his secretary bring it over this morning at 8. We traded boxes and the box his sec. gave me was huge. I figured most of it was packing material. So I set the box in front of the tank and went to forage for some food. I ate and set about unpacking the box. The skimmer was HUGE. Much bigger than what I had expected. The instructions says the skimmer is a Reef Octopus OCTX-300. I tried calling the dude to see if he gave me the right skimmer. I got his voice mail. I'll call him later on tonight. But if it is the right one, I'll have to yank my whole sump out to get that beast in there. It won't fit between the sump and the stand. I don't even know if it will fit in the sump. If anybody out there has a tape measure (I can't find mine) can you measure the width a 55g if you have one? I tried to find the footprint of this skimmer online but I can't find a site that sells OCTX-300's. Does anybody know what the footprint is on it? This is definately much bigger than a NWB 200. If I can borrow my mommy-in-law's camara, I will post pics of the skimmer and instructions. If it is the right skimmer that the dude gave me, I feel like I ripped him off...