HOB skimmer advise

[tank o tang]

I need to find a hob skimmer for my daughters 54gal. Anyone care to share their experiences with ones they have owned. I was looking at the reef octopus but want to hear some opinions.

 

[RTMA]

Your more than welcome to borrow my Remora Nano if you need something in the mean time. Its the only HOB I've ever used. For an HOB it performs ok, way undersized for the 54 tho, but available if you had nothing else to use.

I think I read on Reef Builders that someone was coming out with a HOB cone. Looked pretty cool from what I remembered.

Actually it was a reef octopus..lol

http://************.com/2010/01/28/super-reef-octopus-xp-1000s-hang-cone-skimmer/

 

[Falcao]

i have am oct b300h. It works fine. The resun pumps aren't the best though. A while back I cleaned and open the pumps. The setting of the impeller I think is never the same, so it makes noise every once in awhile. after that it basiclly only skims wet, but it does take a bit of stuff out of my 40 gal.

 

[Falcao]

i have am oct b300h. It works fine. The resun pumps aren't the best though. A while back I cleaned and open the pumps. The setting of the impeller I think is never the same, so it makes noise every once in awhile. after that it basiclly only skims wet, but it does take a bit of stuff out of my 40 gal.

 

[Falcao]

i have am oct b300h. It works fine. The resun pumps aren't the best though. A while back I cleaned and open the pumps. The setting of the impeller I think is never the same, so it makes noise every once in awhile. after that it basiclly only skims wet, but it does take a bit of stuff out of my 40 gal.

 

[Falcao]

i have am oct b300h. It works fine. The resun pumps aren't the best though. A while back I cleaned and open the pumps. The setting of the impeller I think is never the same, so it makes noise every once in awhile. after that it basiclly only skims wet, but it does take a bit of stuff out of my 40 gal.

 

[RTMA]

Not fair he's padding his post numbers!!!! :rollface:

 

[tank o tang]

I guess you really love that skimmer, lol.

RTMA, thanks for the offer but I have a piece of junk prizm I could put on it for now. The new hob octo's have sicce pumps. I think I'm going to save up for her and end up grabbing one. They seem to have good reviews for a hob.

 

[RTMA]

RTMA, thanks for the offer but I have a piece of junk prizm I could put on it for now.

You could use both, combined they'd make an almost decent skimmer for the 54 lol.

1/2 the skimming twice the microbubbles!

 

[tank o tang]

But my prizm says its rated for 200gal. Won't that be overkill? lol