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What is the absolute quietest ones these days?
The government actually runs a quarantine department for imported marine livestock? Wow that is amazing but I am wondering who pays for this and if it is the importer how expensive is it?Not a single mention of Bubble Magus line of DC skimmers. Perhaps BRS get perks from the only brands they review, or they use these brands mainly for USA customers. I live in Western Australia. Obviously our supply and demand chain is different - Indochina mainly. Bubble Magus is made in Singapore - a mere 4.5 hour flight from Perth. Friends and family go there frequently. Ask them to buy duty free and you save a bundle. The equivalent of $AU150 ($US110) got me a Magus Curve 9+ DC. Need a new pump or want to change from the old Magus AC to DC? Same deal - get it from an LFS in Singapore either yourself or family/friends, duty free!
I'm running the Curve 9+DC and it is so simple to adjust, but needs to be in the correct depth. For my sump, I adjusted the skimmer section water level to 10 inches and can control wet to dry at the twist of a gate valve that's numbered. It's very quiet too. Gets the job done superbly, very simple and easy to clean, has a small footprint and large skimmate collection cup.
The one thing I can't do is bring back livestock without paying a fee for Australian quarantine. You should see the marine livestock they have there. Makes me drool!
this is only a guess but i would say any DC one would be really quiet.What is the absolute quietest ones these days?
The whole idea that adjusting the height of the water foam column cannot control if it is a wet or dry Skim is absolutely false. Most of us have been and are still using AC skimmers that very easily control the kind of skimate without messing with the air intake levels via a valve or using a DC pump.
I guess my ASM G3 skimmer has been producing the skim I want by some sort of magic because I have never messed with the air flow or pump speed. Mine is set to a dry skim and has been set at the same height setting for at least 10 years. I raise it a bit if I want wet skim and that also works just fine.
The whole take away I got from the video was that we need to buy a new skimmer with a DC pump. How on earth did we ever survive so long without skimmers using DC pumps? I challenge you guys to put an old school ASM G3 or G4 (which is still sold today) against an equivalent sized DC skimmer of your choice and lets see if there is any difference.