aquamaxx ConeS CO 1 skimmer review

reeftivo said:
If the air/water line is visible and below the collar beneath the cup flange then leave it where it is. Don't worry that you didn't see results over night. Your issue most likely is you are setting it to push foam into the collection cup before it has broken in. When it starts breaking in is when you see this burst of foam into your cup and since it is set too high, it knocks down the foam head and the process starts over again.

A skimmer will develope a transparent slime coat within the body that is unique to its water level setting. If you had it set high before, then it needs time to adjust for the new lower internal water level. Resist the urge to keep tweaking it. Leave it set low (where it's at) and wait for a good foam head to form and STAY formed. If/when your foam head begins to develope and remains consistent for a day or so, then I would start making adjustments. The adjustments should be made SLOWLY and in small monitored increments. After each small adjustment you should have a monitoring period of maybe an hour or so to see if the adjustment was sufficient. If you dont wait long enough and tweak it again before things have settled in, then you will be running in circles. Skimmers are all about patience.

I run my sump level about a quarter inch higher than what yours is in the pic. My level is just over the flange. Yours looks to be right at the flange so you may or may not want to raise the sump level a little higher once you give it some time to settle in at your current mark. If you end up running the sump water level above the flange then most likely you will need to use the oring and Teflon tape for the silencer.

I strongly suggest getting an ato and ditching that box it's in. You will thank us later.
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Boy, I've never been in a hobby that required so much patience before! Thanks for your advice, and I'll go ahead and proceed slow. Can I clean the collection cup (you see how nasty it is) or will it become just as dirty as I tune in the skimmer?
 
andy01748 said:
I have trouble seeing a distinct swirling/rising bubble transition line, but when I dial it back (about 1-1/2 turns) there appears to be this transition zone, but only with about a 1/2 inch of foam on top. I set this per your advice (see picture). The foam level hasn't changed overnight, and has stayed at essentially the same level below the flange.

I re-measured the water level, and it is currently sitting in 9" of water (the height of the plastic tub). The overflow dumps into this tub (I used a cut-off Eheim filter sock about 4" long that doesn't trap anything to cut-down on noise and salt creep). The egg crate you see under the skimmer is actually under the tub to lift it so that when I shut-off the return pump, the sump level doesn't rise above the top of the tub.

The gunk you see around the collar for the cup as well as in the collection side of the cup is left over from the last over-flow event, which I didn't clean. The lid was similarly dirty, but I had cleaned this. The stuff you see coating the collection plate is on the foam/under side and is the stuff I want to collect in the skimate! You can see a clear area towards the bottom of the collection cup, which is basically where the foam had been breaking for the last several days after adjusting after the last overflow event.

My problem has been that if I adjust the foam to break which an occasional bubble breaking through the hole in the collection plate, within a couple of days the skimmer goes into serious overflow mode as I described in my previous post.
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your skimmer sucks, sell it to me!:celeb1:
 
andy01748 said:
Boy, I've never been in a hobby that required so much patience before! Thanks for your advice, and I'll go ahead and proceed slow. Can I clean the collection cup (you see how nasty it is) or will it become just as dirty as I tune in the skimmer?
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I hear ya! Unfortunately in this hobby the only things that usually happen fast are bad things:headwally:

Go ahead and clean the cup. Best to start off fresh.
 
Nice guys.. Glad I could help a few people out who have been waiting... See they still have some instock.

I really dont know whats going on with aquamaxx I been trying to get some of their dosing containers with no luck which are also JNS.. Ended up buying another brand...
 
shred5 said:
Nice guys.. Glad I could help a few people out who have been waiting... See they still have some instock.

I really dont know whats going on with aquamaxx I been trying to get some of their dosing containers with no luck which are also JNS.. Ended up buying another brand...
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gotta love RC!

Always people willing to help out!!

great find:thumbsup:
 
"I really dont know whats going on with aquamaxx I been trying to get some of their dosing containers with no luck which are also JNS.. Ended up buying another brand..."

Good point! Larry hasn't said much other than they are overwhelmed with orders. My feeling is there may be an issue with JNS possibly marketing the cone diffuser design soley in their own brand now. Not sure though!
 
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Just ordered the co2 :thumbsup: thanks! Unfortunately I missed out on the coupon code but hey shipping was only $9.56 ups ground heavyweight. Not complaining at all lol
 
looks like it will get here next Monday for me. Also, the day I order this was the exact day that I finally got my Vertex Omega 130 dialed in -__-

Oh well, I need the sump space anyway.
 
I'm down sizing due to a move. I will be listing my C01 in the for sale section soon. Not getting any interest locally.
 
Hey Tivo do you know what size o-ring you used on the silencer? Mine will be here tomorrow and I was going to go pick one up so that I could install it before I setup the skimmer.
 
mine is a 22mm that I had in one of my fish cabinets. It was a little small but stretched into the groove and held fine. you should be fine with a 22 or 24mm.


HAppy reefing!!!
 
reeftivo said:
purdy!

can you post a pic of the NW/impeller?

Curious which NW JNS uses for their own original brand.

Tx

Tivo
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I was wondering about this also. Is it your understanding that Aquamaxx uses a different NW than JNS? I hope my JNS performs as well as your Aquamaxx.
 
Impeller shot. Sorry I dunno why these pics are coming out sideways lol
 

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