I would like to hear your thoughts?

[Diazreeflife]

I been looking at this DIY skimmer from http://www.reefworkshop.com/DIY_proteinskimmer1.htm it looks amazing!! I wanted to hear everyone's opinion on this? Will a diy skimmer do the job or is there magic in the "store bought" models.

David

 

[cpt]

potentially that looks to be a well designed model, and probably functions properly but unless you have all the necessary tool, materials, and info there is great probability for failure or malfuntion

 

[dorky]

i want to see an actuarial video of a working skimmer

 

[Diazreeflife]

I have all the skills and tools to build it and I can easily get all the material, I just don't want to spend the time building it for it to be a ok skimmer. But if it is a good skimmer and I can save 400 bucks then it's a no brainier. Maybe someone on the forum built one and can fill us in?

 

[ifarmer]

very nice

 

[reefernutz]

Why not just look at an Avast CS-1 build kit. It's a very inexpensive skimmer and is proven to perform well. Plus you get the fun of building it yourself......they just give you all of the pieces. It looks that this skimmer could work, but you would have to find a pump that would match to the skimmer size. Too big or too small and the skimmer wouldn't be effective. What size tank is this going on?