Aqua Medic T-5000 Baby

Well I don't have one yet, but I am expecting mine to arrive at any time. As soon as my tank is broken in and the skimmer is doing it's job, I'll revisit this thread and update. I hear they are great skimmers.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7709169#post7709169 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by boris MAC
Here you will find this wonderful tank employ one, a bit modified
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-06/totm/index.php

That is not a Turboflotor 5000 baby ... that is a Shorty II ....

Of the Turboflotor 5000 series, the shorties, baby and the single use only a single pump OR3500 needle wheel to run the skimmer.

All of them are competent skimmers but I prefer to use the Single; of the 3, it has the tallest contact chamber (ard 5 feet plus) ....

The baby is ard 5 ft tall (including cup)... it works very similarly as the single I m using and if you were doing a 300 gallon sps tank and need very good skimming, I would highly recommend the baby.

The skimmate for the baby is a toothpaste like texture .... medium brown (if you clean your skimmer cup every 1 to 2 days) ....

Though the skimmer has a needle wheel pump, you need a feed pump to pump the water from the sump to the skimmer ...

the feed pump I would use is either the OR2500 or the OR3500 (or equivalent) depending on preference and the contact time in the skimmer tube required ... faster than that the skimmer may not work properly.
 
Re: Aqua Medic T-5000 Baby

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7699320#post7699320 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Steven Pro
Does anyone have one of these skimmers? I am looking for some feedback. Any opinions?
Hi Steven, i have had this skimmer for the last 4yrs and have never had a problem with it. The skimmer itself is about 7yrs old [passed on from a freind] and still has the ehiem recirculating pump on it, before AM brought out the ocean runner. In 7yrs this skimmer has not missed a days work.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7702388#post7702388 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Michelle L
Well I don't have one yet, but I am expecting mine to arrive at any time. As soon as my tank is broken in and the skimmer is doing it's job, I'll revisit this thread and update. I hear they are great skimmers.
Any updates?
 
My cousin uses one on his 180g (yeah, its oversized). Its been running for a little over a year now. Its what convinced me to use oceanrunner 3700s for my own DIY skimmers... works great.

I would consider 5000 series skimmers and the OR3700 to be some of the most often 'passed-over' skimmers that really shouldnt be.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8041168#post8041168 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hahnmeister
My cousin uses one on his 180g (yeah, its oversized). Its been running for a little over a year now. Its what convinced me to use oceanrunner 3700s for my own DIY skimmers... works great.

I would consider 5000 series skimmers and the OR3700 to be some of the most often 'passed-over' skimmers that really shouldnt be.
Do you or your cousin have any pictures of the skimmer in action? I am a bit concerned that one OR 3700 will be able to draw in sufficient air at 4' of head pressure.
 
There is no problem with merely having one OR3700 ....

I have shorties, babies and singles running on just one OR3700 (in my case OR3500 using 230 volts) and they all work perfectly .... and I like the T5000 Single best becoz of the 5.5 ft chamber to foam in ...

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pic of a shorty


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pic of a single
 
Premium Aquatics uses one on their livestock system and I think its a monster, and very reasonably priced. WHen I saw it I thought that it was doing a hell of a job
 
I started the Aqua Medic Club thread as HTK, and was shocked how little there are out there...

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=681771

I dont have any pics, but my cousin lives less than a mile away... All I can say is that the baby is an awesome skimmer, and when Spazz started using 3700s on his earlier skimmers, everyone started to finally realize what the OR was good at. Unlike Sedras, aquabees, eheims, and their like (where a disk has pins parallel with the shaft), the OR does not perform as well on shorter skimmers, only drawing about 70-80% the SCFH of those others... but the OR's have a different pinwheel design that allows for them to pump air into skimmers much taller than anything those other pumps could do but simply choke on. An OR 3700 can run on a skimmer that is 5' tall... a Sedra or even Red Dragon would just quit at those heights.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8043660#post8043660 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chtan

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pic of a single
Thanks for the pictures. This one definitely has me leaning more towards the Single. It looks like it is well filled with bubbles, should have a tremendous contact time with that height, and is not much more expensive than the shorter Baby model.
 
Its a single ..... as it is only running on 1 OR .... but originally it was a twin. I decided to cap the ends of one side so that it becomes a single .....

If you look carefully, there is only one pump running .... the single is exactly the same dimension as the twin, but with one holder for one pump.

I decided to run it as a single partly because of the obstruction to my doorway and partly because given the size of my tank, running a twin as a single was more than sufficient.
 
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