Good afternoon, I'm not sure if this is the correct part of the forum to post this(Maybe in Nano forums?) , as it is my second post on the forum.
For background, I have a Nuvo Fusion 20 AIO tank that has been up and running for about 1.5 weeks now. I initially installed a Tunze Comline 9001 Skimmer in the center chamber of the tank. After installing the Tunze ATO I realized that the Tunze 9001 would interfere with the ATO sensors, and I would much prefer to have a skimmer in the second chamber as opposed to the middle chamber.
One benefit of having a protein skimmer in the 2nd chamber of the tank would be that the water level is always consistent and I wouldn't have to change the height of the skimmer as often.
After doing some searching I found the IceCap K1 Nano skimmer. The dimensions would allow it to fit nicely in the 2nd chamber of the tank, and the water level of this chamber (8 Inches) fell within the suggested 6-9" of the skimmer.
I purchased the skimmer and today it arrived.
Upon unboxing the skimmer, I noticed that the ring that holds the rubber gasket on the collection cup had broken. This was an easy fix with some super glue.
You can see in the attached image a few cracks where I super glued the ring back on. I'm assuming this is due to shipping.
I've seen a ton of reviews that suggest the tuning of this skimmer is "finicky." After installing it myself I very quickly realized that this difficulty in tuning was due to the gated valve being an extremely tight fit. It would then bind making it very difficult to open or close in small adjustments. I took a file to the gated valve and now that its smaller it still snugly closes, but it moves freely with the adjustments of the set screw.
I've attached an image of the gated valve that needs to be sanded/filed down some. I'm assuming not all of them need this but mine definitely did out of the box.
After sanding this down and reinserting onto the skimmer body, I super glued it on as it was not the tightest fit, and I wanted to ensure it did not come out when making adjustments. The attached image shows the hole that I super glued the gate valve onto:
After that was reattached I tightened up the nut on the adjustment arm so that it was super snug.
I then reassembled everything and put it back in the tank. The skimmer is now much more quiet, and the adjustment arm is super easy to rotate and much more responsive. I can now control the height of the bubbles in the collection cup very accurately.
I really like the design of the skimmer, but obviously quality control is straight garbage. I'll known in a month or two whether this thing actually skims, but I see no reason as to why it wouldn't!
There are a ton of micro bubbles, which according to most other reviews and skimmer common knowledge should go down in the next few weeks. If they do not I will simply attach some filter sock to the gate valve output.
Thanks!
For background, I have a Nuvo Fusion 20 AIO tank that has been up and running for about 1.5 weeks now. I initially installed a Tunze Comline 9001 Skimmer in the center chamber of the tank. After installing the Tunze ATO I realized that the Tunze 9001 would interfere with the ATO sensors, and I would much prefer to have a skimmer in the second chamber as opposed to the middle chamber.
One benefit of having a protein skimmer in the 2nd chamber of the tank would be that the water level is always consistent and I wouldn't have to change the height of the skimmer as often.
After doing some searching I found the IceCap K1 Nano skimmer. The dimensions would allow it to fit nicely in the 2nd chamber of the tank, and the water level of this chamber (8 Inches) fell within the suggested 6-9" of the skimmer.
I purchased the skimmer and today it arrived.
Upon unboxing the skimmer, I noticed that the ring that holds the rubber gasket on the collection cup had broken. This was an easy fix with some super glue.
You can see in the attached image a few cracks where I super glued the ring back on. I'm assuming this is due to shipping.
I've seen a ton of reviews that suggest the tuning of this skimmer is "finicky." After installing it myself I very quickly realized that this difficulty in tuning was due to the gated valve being an extremely tight fit. It would then bind making it very difficult to open or close in small adjustments. I took a file to the gated valve and now that its smaller it still snugly closes, but it moves freely with the adjustments of the set screw.
I've attached an image of the gated valve that needs to be sanded/filed down some. I'm assuming not all of them need this but mine definitely did out of the box.
After sanding this down and reinserting onto the skimmer body, I super glued it on as it was not the tightest fit, and I wanted to ensure it did not come out when making adjustments. The attached image shows the hole that I super glued the gate valve onto:
After that was reattached I tightened up the nut on the adjustment arm so that it was super snug.
I then reassembled everything and put it back in the tank. The skimmer is now much more quiet, and the adjustment arm is super easy to rotate and much more responsive. I can now control the height of the bubbles in the collection cup very accurately.
I really like the design of the skimmer, but obviously quality control is straight garbage. I'll known in a month or two whether this thing actually skims, but I see no reason as to why it wouldn't!
There are a ton of micro bubbles, which according to most other reviews and skimmer common knowledge should go down in the next few weeks. If they do not I will simply attach some filter sock to the gate valve output.
Thanks!
but it is a bit loud
