H&S Skimmer Club

[lunkerbunker]

whch model do you guys reccomend for 120 gal tank?

 

[lunkerbunker]

which model do you guys reccomend for 120 gal tank?

 

[lunkerbunker]

i forgot, where do you reccomend i purchase it from? and are there any discounts?

 

[Jerico96]

I got mine from Brian at finsreef.com you can call him or email him and he will help you. Great customer service

Jerry

 

[Jim_S]

Wow. A triple post. Although very rare, they are not yet extinct.

lunkerbunker: try here: http://www.finsreef.com/home.php?cat=248

If you have any questions about the units, call and speak with Brian. His customer service is top notch. And you will be very hard pressed to find a discount. These are very sought after items and are priced accordingly.

Jim

 

[lunkerbunker]

what do you guys prefer, insump or external? thanks

 

[seaspook]

get the external, vitually same price and more versitile

 

[lunkerbunker]

Hopefully I will be a member of this esteem club soon!!! But for current owners can you show your pride with pics of your skimmate. This would help me a great deal!!! Thanks

 

[bigdee65]

Hey guys, I am have been looking into the A150-F2001 for some time now to add to a new tank that I am setting up. I currently live in an appartment so I the biggest tank I can get right now is a 75 with a 30g sump. I don't forsee me leaving this apartment for a few years, but once I do I might either upgrade the tank or keep it and get a larger one.

Do you think the A150-F2001 is overkill for the 75g tank with a total of about 110g? I know a lot of people don't believe in over skimming (I am one of them) but I do feel like sometimes the skimmer is just WAY to big for its application.

Any insight on this would be great, I won't be getting it for another month or so as I am still in the building phase of my stand.

TIA

 

[seaspook]

H&S

H&S

I am running an A150 on my 75 while I am rebuilding my 200. I may be wrong, but I think that the skimmer is more sensitve and "shuts down" more when I feed or stick my dirty hands in the tank. I have no trouble adjusting for a dry skimmate, but i have trouble getting a wet skimmate. I am running about 250 gal/hr through the skimmer.

alan

 

[Adobo]

Do you think the A150-F2001 is overkill for the 75g tank with a total of about 110g? I know a lot of people don't believe in over skimming (I am one of them) but I do feel like sometimes the skimmer is just WAY to big for its application.

I think it would be perfect. I have the same skimmer and am around 125 gallons when you figure in the sump. Works great for me.

I may be wrong, but I think that the skimmer is more sensitve and "shuts down" more when I feed or stick my dirty hands in the tank. I have no trouble adjusting for a dry skimmate, but i have trouble getting a wet skimmate. I am running about 250 gal/hr through the skimmer.

Every skimmer I have ever owned has been affected to some degree when I stuck my hands in or fed the tank. I found my ETS skimmer to be the worst out of all of them (I've owned a skilter, two CPR skimmers, an ETS, a Euro reef and now an H&S). I think this has to do with the change in the water tension. You can read in Anthony Calfo's forum to get some details.

As far as wet skimming goes, I set my skimmer so that the bubbles rise to about 1" below the top of the collection cup neck. This gives me tea colored skimmate. I am able to set it this way by adjusting the output pipes until the bubbles rise to the desired level.

About the flow through...
The manufacturers and distributors of recirculating needlewheel skimmers have been recommending a flow through of about 1.5x tank volume/hr. In your tank, that would be around 100 gallons/hr. By reducing the flow through, you will increase the reaction time. Presumably, this allows the skimmer to pull out some of the more stubborn organics out.

HTH,

Ted

 

[cmc5dc]

Hi gang,

How does everyone clean the needlewheel pump and how often? I have model number A150-F2001 and when I purchased it I didn't hear the air inlet noise but now I do after 1 month.

Details would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Carl

 

[Heinz]

looks like H&S club members are lazy, almost no pictures in this thread
lets see those skimmers set up and running

 

[BlueNWhite]

Adobo

...The A200 has two pump configuration choices. What are the advantages/disadvantages of having two Aquabee pumps
versus one Ehiem if the total air intake in about the same and pricing is the same? What would your preference be?

Good question by Fuzzy, above. I would like to hear others' comments on whether to go for the one 1260 Eheim or two Aquabees, at the exact same price.

Up here, the external versions are a fair bit more than the equivalent in-sump versions. The external is supposed to be recirculating while the in-sump is not. But if this is the case, why is the 'maximum capacity' rating the same for both versions?

Thanks.

 

[Adobo]

Good question by Fuzzy, above. I would like to hear others' comments on whether to go for the one 1260 Eheim or two Aquabees, at the exact same price.

My personal take with recirculating skimmres is that you can always dial down too much air and it won't cost a thing. However, adding more air is super expensive if not impossible.. Between the two, I would go with the dual aquabee set up instead of the the eheim set up. The only thing to consider is that aquabee is not necessarily held in as high regard as eheim. Some eheim pump owners swear by the longevity that their pumps have provided. I have seen very little good or bad information being shared by long time aquabee owners.

As far are recirc skimmers go, I tried to figure out why they were supposedly better. I never found an answer that was truly tangible. The best I could get was that with recirc skimmers, you can adjust the dwell time of the water being filtered whereas with an in sump skimmer, it is pretty much fixed. Increasing dwell time, some say, is the key to getting good performance with a skimmer.

looks like H&S club members are lazy, almost no pictures in this thread

Mine looks exactly like this one. I am borrowing someone else's pic though. I will post a pic of my skimmer "on the job" over the weekend.

Ted

 

[Fliger]

BlueNWhite, I've heard both those questions asked several times, and really, there is no answer. IMHO, dual Aquabees would would be the better way to go so that you can throttle one back and keep one going, for more turbulence within the skimmer body. But a single Eheim is probably more efficient and one less pump to clean. Still, I'd choose dual Aquabees.

As far as the rating, ratings are arbitrary and ambiguous. If you're looking for a skimmer for your 130, either would be great. AAMOF, a SINGLE Aquabee would be ok. I have a friend running one and it's extremely impressive on his 150. It is MHO that an external skimmer is better than an internal, it's easier to manipulate, and you can keep your feed pump/source running while you turn off your air so water doesn't sit stagnant - or you don't fill your sump everytime you turn off your skimmer. This is a BIG advantage to me, as sometimes I've turned off my skimmer for a couple days at a time.

Heinz, here is a pic for ya, first is my A300 and second/third is the skimmer of my A200 (sold to a fellow reefer)

 

[BlueNWhite]

My a150 is due in on monday... I am so anxious I am foaming at the mouth.

Funny! ROFLA (or something like that)

 

[BlueNWhite]

...here is a pic for ya, first is my A300 and second/third is the skimmer of my A200 (sold to a fellow reefer)

Hello Fliger

Thanks for your opinion on the Aquabees over the Eheim.

I am considering the 200-2xF2000 for the 180g that I am working on. I would like to keep a lot of fish.

And when you are ready to upgrade from your A300, I would like to be the felllow reefer.

 

[Remorarules]

For 55 gaqllon

For 55 gaqllon

What would be the perfect model H & S for a 55 gallon

 

[TexasTodd]

I haven't posted pics of my skimmate because you can set them to skim any way you want! Wet wet wet through swamp mud!



I like the Ehiem because of proven reliability AND that I could get one locally if needed and swap the adaptor parts over from the down/broken one if this ever happens.

TT