Innovative Marine new NuvoSkim

[Andre.nicolau]

Hello guys!

I am building my new 20g nano reef and choosing which skimmer to use. Have you heard about the new NuvoSkim from Innovative Marine?? Any impressions yet? Any news about when will it be available at retailers?

 

[Dsnakes]

I have not heard of that one. I used the IM Ghost skimmer in my Nuvo 20. It worked well, but wasn’t silent.

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

The new IM Nuvoskim DC Protein skimmer is great! Been running it for 3 days with fantastic results . Getting some medium dark skimmate at the moment . I don’t have any fish in my main tank ( Nuvo 20g) since ick treatment. No micro bubbles in my DT and very little breakin period.

only experience I have with nano protein skimmers are Eshopps nano skimmer and the Reef Glass .

Selling both my reef glass and Eshopps now ;)

 

[pieceofreef]

@Tuan’s Reef
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts on the new skimmer. I'm considering it for my 25g lagoon.

This thread here describes "an okay but not overwhelmingly good picture" of the skimmer: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/innovative-marine-skimmer-showdown.532676/

What's your verdict after about a month? Would you get it again? My main alternative would be the much bigger Aquamaxx HOB 1.5.
Is it quiet?
Thanks!

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

With my limited experience with nano skimmer, and novice in the hobby in general .... IMO it’s still the best skimmer for the IM AIO line of tanks. We probably can run our 25g and under AIO’s without a skimmer but I would rather run one . Besides pulling gunk out of our tank , it does a tremendous job of aerating the aquarium.

Not only it looks nice on my tank , it does it’s job very nicely. Would buy again without a single hesititaton

 

[taima1shu]

What about noise level wise? How does it compare to Eshopps nano?

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

It’s just a hair louder than the Eshopps. I have my tank in my living , can’t hear it from 5 feet away unless house is mouse quiet . It’s not loud for sure

 

[ekoed]

This thing has been running in my tank for like 2 weeks straight, and while its skimming well, I get a ton of micro bubbles. It's getting really annoying.

 

[Jake Lopez]

I’ve had the NuvoSkim Midsize for about 2 weeks now and the first week it’s skimmed very well!!! Not very dark skim coming out at first and now I get none out of it tried skimming wet and still nothing. Beginner problems ‍