marc nichols
Premium Member
Just received my DC1. It will replace my 8 year serving skimmer.
Assembled and run in a vinegar water bath for 12 hours and will install today. Seems very quiet and made remarkable bubbles for fresh water running. We shall see. The plastic parts seem robust and well made and hopefully not a chemically deficient plastic as is all too common with Chinese manufactured products. But, the construction looks very nice and I particularly noted the radiused transitions in pipes, an uncommon detail.
Two suggestions for Reef Octopus: have the "instructions" re-written by a US schooled person plus inclusion of more details. Second, the Styrofoam block in which this was packed broke down into a myriad of beads which infiltrated seemingly sealed component bags, adhered to all plastic parts and even invaded the inside of the pump motor. Just needs a better quality packing material. I unpacked this with a vacuum cleaner in hand..., frustrating.
Assembled and run in a vinegar water bath for 12 hours and will install today. Seems very quiet and made remarkable bubbles for fresh water running. We shall see. The plastic parts seem robust and well made and hopefully not a chemically deficient plastic as is all too common with Chinese manufactured products. But, the construction looks very nice and I particularly noted the radiused transitions in pipes, an uncommon detail.
Two suggestions for Reef Octopus: have the "instructions" re-written by a US schooled person plus inclusion of more details. Second, the Styrofoam block in which this was packed broke down into a myriad of beads which infiltrated seemingly sealed component bags, adhered to all plastic parts and even invaded the inside of the pump motor. Just needs a better quality packing material. I unpacked this with a vacuum cleaner in hand..., frustrating.