Hang on Skimmers
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FishAreFriends2
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Aww they made it sound so good. Has anyone tried to mod in sump skimmers to hang ons or something? IS the aqua-c urchin a hang on? If so how good is it?
happyface888
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Has anyone heard any reviews yet on the bermuda rogue?
luke33
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Got my first feedback of it tonight. After a week of use, it was pulling a gallon of light tea a day. The fine tuning needs to be tweeked but i'm guessing a cup of darness a day is not out of the question.
GSMguy....if yo want to see the "coke color skimmate" check out my via aqua thread. I tweaked it just for you man.
GSMguy....if yo want to see the "coke color skimmate" check out my via aqua thread. I tweaked it just for you man.
happyface888
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How about some pics lol
dohc97
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I will post my limited experience, i used a nano remora with an mj900 and it would pull out about half a cup of nasty dark stuff every other day. Since i read so much about this skimmer being bad and others being way better i decided to try a typhoon. I specifically read all the threads by kodyboy and assumed that at the least i would get the same skimmate from this unit. I was very wrong as i never got much out of the typhoon no matter what i did. I ended up giving it away(didnt have the courage to sell the pos) and now wish i had kept the nano remora, sure it was a bit noisy but at least it skimmed. I know the remoras are not the best out there but im also done trying these "budget" skimmers.
sorry you had such a bad experience with the typhoon, mine has been good. I have had bad experiences with remoras, never could get those things to skim squat. Maybe one reason you did not get much is that the typhoon does not have a surface skimmer box and the remora does, so it concentrates more of the dissolved organics and the skimmer can pull them out easier. Maybe a small plastic box with slits in it around the pump (a skimmer overflow type unit) would have given you a better result. I have had good luck with the typhoon and so have many others. The typhoon does take tweaking to get it to work its best, and maybe that is why it cost so much less. A gate valve on it would make it a lot easier to set properly, and is not really a hard mod to do. Another easy mod it to add a small air pump (whisper 60 or so) to the air inlet, it forces a lot more air into the skimmer. Someone on here mentioned changing it around to a needlewheel design, that may end up being the best mod yet.
dohc97
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actually my nano remora had no skimmer box, i just had the mj900 in the tank. I tried everything you have mentioned in your threads about the typhoon and i never got it to work, it just frustrated me to the point of just shutting it down. Not knocking any skimmer just stating my hands on experience which is what people on this thread should stick to, there are quite a few who just repeat what they read and have not tried the products. I dont think its cool to criticize something that i havent used.
dohn, I am sure why it did not work, odd. Maybe you just got a bad one. I hope your next skimmer works better. Get a sump and an octopus nw110 or 150, cheap and hard not to work, or if you still have a 20 get a tunze nano 9002, that should work well (of course if you still have a 20 water changes may make more sense
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happyface888
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Well browsing around, since the regular cpr isnt all that great was wondering if the dual was any good?
Also found this interesting skimmer
Clean-Up 125 Protein Skimmer
by Won Brothers
Also found this interesting skimmer
Clean-Up 125 Protein Skimmer
by Won Brothers
FishAreFriends2
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The dual bak pak still sucks? It cost soooo much and so does that won.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10526663#post10526663 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DeltecRules
GSMguy, I wouldn't waste your time with this guy. He likes to bash anything high end. Even though he has no actual experience with the product.
Kodyboy have you ever owned a mce600? Or have any actual experience with it? Reading a post isn't the same thing of actually ever having one is it? I have owned a mce600 for a year and hands down it was a top performer. Why would someone not want a hangon skimmer with a aquabee 2000 pump which pulls 10 watts of power and sucks in 400 LPH of air and is dead silent? Sure the collection cup is small but I like to clean my collection cup daily anyways so it never mattered.
As of you saying a typhoon is better than a mce600 is absolutely ridiculous. The mce600 would skim circles around it and yesI have seen a typhoon in action. Its a piece of junk. Works okay for the budget minded but not in the deltec class. The bermuda is a nice skimmer but its no needlewheel like a Mce600 and the mce600 doesn't need a big hungry pump to make those tiny bubbles that deltec is known for. Please back up what you are saying with some actual experience before bashing a product.
Here is a review from advance aquarist
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/8/review
Oh and here are some pics of my supposed old finicky overated deltec mce600.
In action (look at those tiny bubbles)
Wet Nog
1 week of nasty dry nog (looks like gravy huh)
Nog looking above collection cup
:lol: says the guy who used to go by the name RemoraRules :lol: This is just precious
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