which skimmer is better?
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DC_40gallon
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I went from an eshopps to the octopus lx1000s hob.
The eshopps is a great cheap skimmer but a pain in the a s s. It has a foam diffuser on the outlet and if that thing shifts a tiny bit the flow will either deplete into the skimmer chamber and not skim or overflow like crazy. This requires daily adjustments. The other thing is eshopps customer service sucks. I've emailed them several occasions and I takes 4-5 attempts for them to respond.
My new lx1000s hob octopus was plug and play. It took about 3 days of tinkering and adjusting during the break in stage but all that is going to happen with any skimmer.
What I fell in love with the octopus lx1000s and 2000s hob was the front. I has 2 chambers where the water flows through that you can pu in a bag of carbon and phosban/phosguard. This saves the room and investment of a reactor and pump. Also during it's break in stage the cup would fill up suddenly from a gusher (again happens with every skimmer) and I found they built in a special overflow where no matter the force, the cup will not overflow. It will run back into the skimmer pump.
The eshopps is a great cheap skimmer but a pain in the a s s. It has a foam diffuser on the outlet and if that thing shifts a tiny bit the flow will either deplete into the skimmer chamber and not skim or overflow like crazy. This requires daily adjustments. The other thing is eshopps customer service sucks. I've emailed them several occasions and I takes 4-5 attempts for them to respond.
My new lx1000s hob octopus was plug and play. It took about 3 days of tinkering and adjusting during the break in stage but all that is going to happen with any skimmer.
What I fell in love with the octopus lx1000s and 2000s hob was the front. I has 2 chambers where the water flows through that you can pu in a bag of carbon and phosban/phosguard. This saves the room and investment of a reactor and pump. Also during it's break in stage the cup would fill up suddenly from a gusher (again happens with every skimmer) and I found they built in a special overflow where no matter the force, the cup will not overflow. It will run back into the skimmer pump.
DC_40gallon
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I'd try the beginners forum for more responses. Don't know why, but I have never gotten much of any responses on things when I post them here.
I wondered the same thing until I called premium aquatics and they told me they would go with the LX1000s and 2000s hob octopus skimmers over their cone XP1000s. When I asked why they told me it was the sheer insane water volume of the LX1000 and 2000 models. When I got my LX1000s I was laughing alone just staring at it because of it's enormity.
The foam diffuser is the size of a Coke can and the silencer is the size of a pill bottle. When I started filling it up I found that it held around 2 gallons of water before I was able to turn it on to get it going.
If it helps any, this skimmer was dead silent within a week (the first week was pretty noisy the first week when it was breaking in) and now is pulling thick green gunk skimmate within the first 2 weeks of operation.
Here is a previous thread with tons of pics of what the LX1000s looks like in private hands. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1784951
I wondered the same thing until I called premium aquatics and they told me they would go with the LX1000s and 2000s hob octopus skimmers over their cone XP1000s. When I asked why they told me it was the sheer insane water volume of the LX1000 and 2000 models. When I got my LX1000s I was laughing alone just staring at it because of it's enormity.
The foam diffuser is the size of a Coke can and the silencer is the size of a pill bottle. When I started filling it up I found that it held around 2 gallons of water before I was able to turn it on to get it going.
If it helps any, this skimmer was dead silent within a week (the first week was pretty noisy the first week when it was breaking in) and now is pulling thick green gunk skimmate within the first 2 weeks of operation.
Here is a previous thread with tons of pics of what the LX1000s looks like in private hands. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1784951
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