... I had to assemble everything. Not much to assemble though. Just got mine in this afternoon. It is dead silent though. I replaced it with a Coralife Super skimmer 65g to the BM100 on my 20 gal frag tank, with 10 g sump. It is a monster, very nice microbubbles for the performance you cant touch it for the price it is at. I will take pictures tomorow, just got done tiling my bathroom floor dont even feel like picking the camera up now.
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Just an update on my BM 100. It has been running since December 10, 2008.
I have cleaned it once and the plastic has gotten brittle on the removable pump panel and I broke two of the handholds on it. The pump is still silent and pulls out probably what I put in in terms of food. I only have 3 small fish in 100 gallons of water, so it seems to be doing its job. I have it set to skim very wet so the cup gets filled once a week or so. The thing I don't like is the small tubing to drain the cup. I don't use it, but it cannot be removed because there is a hole in the cup now. I shortened the tubing so now only the valve sticks out, but I would prefer a standard non-drilled cup.
I have cleaned it once and the plastic has gotten brittle on the removable pump panel and I broke two of the handholds on it. The pump is still silent and pulls out probably what I put in in terms of food. I only have 3 small fish in 100 gallons of water, so it seems to be doing its job. I have it set to skim very wet so the cup gets filled once a week or so. The thing I don't like is the small tubing to drain the cup. I don't use it, but it cannot be removed because there is a hole in the cup now. I shortened the tubing so now only the valve sticks out, but I would prefer a standard non-drilled cup.
dailydriven911
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Just ordered the bm100 v2! How can you go wrong for $150 shipped!
r-balljunkie
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i think that is safe to say, for the US market. overseas, i think they get bigger, see here manufactures site:
http://www.bubble-magus.com
go ahead and get the BM. i have been sooo happy with it, and it has ran circles around other skimmers i have owned.
the only problem i have had, is it skims so hard, it sometimes it pushes the lid off!
I recently broke open my aqua bee on my 160 and found the shaft for the impeller had 4 washers on it..Is that supposed to be or is this something that I can play with to possibly get the pump to be a little quieter?? I have just never seen a pump shaft with more then one washer on it
JTCdudeman
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My review of my new BM-100 skimmer...
I originally wanted the 150, but they were out of stock at nuocean. And, after reading the support in this thread from Chris over there I wouldnt purchase my skimmer elsewhere. Lets just say he has made customer service seem like a joke everywhere else considering he fixes the problem before you even contact him about it. I also saw the Version 2 seems not to have the issues with the pump liek the version 1.
So, I bought the 100 thinking I didnt have that big of a tank and this bad boy should do fine. Ive been skimmerless practically for 2 months now. Unless you consider s superkskimmer an actual skimmer. My overflow produces as much skimmate as mu superskimmer.. :eek2: :eek1:
Truth be told. Ive been researching skimmers for about two months while using a junker and I just purchased one on Wednesday. After reading reviews everywhere I decided I would try the Bubble Magus line of skimmers.
It showed up yesterday and wow am I impressed. The acrylic is 4x thicker than my turbofloater that melted and eaily 3x as thick as the Coralife superskimmer Im currently using. It looks awesome. So, I had to set it up to break it in and test it.
I put about 10 gallons of waterchange water in a container when I did a large water change yesterday. So, the water is from my tank with a superskimmer on it already. I tossed the new BM skimmer in there and turned it on. Its quieter than any other skimmer I have used. Its massive, and produces more fine microbubbles than my recirculating turboflotor. So far, its filled the collection cup full 2x in under 12 hours with dry... dry skimming. I Cant wait to get my sump setup to accept this bad boy.
Best $140 I have ever spent! Yes, I said $140 including pump. Brand new! And it blows away anything I have seen for the $$$, much less competes with the $400 skimmers.
The only thing I suggest it. Look 3x at the dimensions of it for the $$. I didnt realize how big it really is. Its not a bad thing either. That 7"x11" or so footprint is all skimmer unlike anything else I have seen. I expected the base to be bigger than the skimmer by far. I also didnt realize how big the collection cup is. Its Huge! I mean, HUGE. :lol:
I originally wanted the 150, but they were out of stock at nuocean. And, after reading the support in this thread from Chris over there I wouldnt purchase my skimmer elsewhere. Lets just say he has made customer service seem like a joke everywhere else considering he fixes the problem before you even contact him about it. I also saw the Version 2 seems not to have the issues with the pump liek the version 1.
So, I bought the 100 thinking I didnt have that big of a tank and this bad boy should do fine. Ive been skimmerless practically for 2 months now. Unless you consider s superkskimmer an actual skimmer. My overflow produces as much skimmate as mu superskimmer.. :eek2: :eek1:
Truth be told. Ive been researching skimmers for about two months while using a junker and I just purchased one on Wednesday. After reading reviews everywhere I decided I would try the Bubble Magus line of skimmers.
It showed up yesterday and wow am I impressed. The acrylic is 4x thicker than my turbofloater that melted and eaily 3x as thick as the Coralife superskimmer Im currently using. It looks awesome. So, I had to set it up to break it in and test it.
I put about 10 gallons of waterchange water in a container when I did a large water change yesterday. So, the water is from my tank with a superskimmer on it already. I tossed the new BM skimmer in there and turned it on. Its quieter than any other skimmer I have used. Its massive, and produces more fine microbubbles than my recirculating turboflotor. So far, its filled the collection cup full 2x in under 12 hours with dry... dry skimming. I Cant wait to get my sump setup to accept this bad boy.
Best $140 I have ever spent! Yes, I said $140 including pump. Brand new! And it blows away anything I have seen for the $$$, much less competes with the $400 skimmers.
The only thing I suggest it. Look 3x at the dimensions of it for the $$. I didnt realize how big it really is. Its not a bad thing either. That 7"x11" or so footprint is all skimmer unlike anything else I have seen. I expected the base to be bigger than the skimmer by far. I also didnt realize how big the collection cup is. Its Huge! I mean, HUGE. :lol:
dailydriven911
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Thanks for the review! I'll be getting my bm100 this Friday! I'll post up some pics and results to!
Jayson
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for those of you using the BM160, what is the best water level in the sump? if i've read this thread correctly, a lower water level uses less energy per kwh and conversely a higher water level uses more energy per kwh.
what about skimming performance based on water height in sump?
what about skimming performance based on water height in sump?
BM160 is external, so the sump water level does not matter.
I believe you should take the tank sizes that nuocean reports for the BM160 on the website, multiply by 1.5, and try to feed at that flow rate. Feed either by additional pump (such as a maxiJet 1200), or by drain. When feeding by drain, you need to do something to smooth out the flow so the skimmer feed is constant, otherwise the foam head level will oscillate (up and down).
I believe you should take the tank sizes that nuocean reports for the BM160 on the website, multiply by 1.5, and try to feed at that flow rate. Feed either by additional pump (such as a maxiJet 1200), or by drain. When feeding by drain, you need to do something to smooth out the flow so the skimmer feed is constant, otherwise the foam head level will oscillate (up and down).
That might not end up being enough flow, but if it's steady it should work. Issue might be that the inlet flow is so low that you have to keep the outlet pipe valve closed down to almost a slit. So then making slight adjustments to the foam head height could get over sensitive... But I would try it and see, it should work from a mechanical standpoint.
I think a perfect theoretical world would have you feed the more dirty water to the skimmer first, then the GAC/GFO stages. That way your GAC and GFO life is preserved.
Right now in my setup, I have this:
Drain to BM160 inlet
Outlet of BM160 into 100 micron nylon filter sock
Filter sock falls to sump, passes over bio filtration
Eheim 1262 pumps up to tee
tee goes to TLF GAC
TLF GAC goes into filter sock hanging from skimmer
other end of Eheim tee goes to gate valve that is greatly restricting the flow, and then back to display tank
My sequence probably suffers from not going through the filter sock before the skimmer, but I made that sacrifice to keep my setup more simple. I think feeding your BM160 off your GFO reactor would also keeps your more simple, so if it works, I'd go with it.
I think a perfect theoretical world would have you feed the more dirty water to the skimmer first, then the GAC/GFO stages. That way your GAC and GFO life is preserved.
Right now in my setup, I have this:
Drain to BM160 inlet
Outlet of BM160 into 100 micron nylon filter sock
Filter sock falls to sump, passes over bio filtration
Eheim 1262 pumps up to tee
tee goes to TLF GAC
TLF GAC goes into filter sock hanging from skimmer
other end of Eheim tee goes to gate valve that is greatly restricting the flow, and then back to display tank
My sequence probably suffers from not going through the filter sock before the skimmer, but I made that sacrifice to keep my setup more simple. I think feeding your BM160 off your GFO reactor would also keeps your more simple, so if it works, I'd go with it.
I have my skimmer shut off for 15 minutes twice a day. Do you think this would pose any problems for the BM100v2?
I emailed nuocean on their website, but I didn't get any response. Everyone seems happy with their customer service, so maybe something went wrong with the email. It does worry me a little that they don't have a phone number though - unless I just didn't look in the right place.
Anyway, do you think the BM100v2 can start and stop twice a day without problems? Also, does anyone know how much the BM150 is? Thanks for the help.
I emailed nuocean on their website, but I didn't get any response. Everyone seems happy with their customer service, so maybe something went wrong with the email. It does worry me a little that they don't have a phone number though - unless I just didn't look in the right place.
Anyway, do you think the BM100v2 can start and stop twice a day without problems? Also, does anyone know how much the BM150 is? Thanks for the help.
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