Update on Skimmer after 6 months of constant adjustment.
OK, so I had this skimmer for 6 months now and It is non stop tweaking just because the water will fluctuate 1/2" in height every so often. It over flows after every power off ,so you can't shut it down to feed. I do water changes with it off and have to retune it after, even after I bring water to same level. So I don't recommend You buy one of these unless you want a lot of work! I also own a coral life 150G cone skimmer which is a little better but not much. You can't do feed shutdowns or blackout/brown outs it will over flow.
I just bought a Super Reef Octopus SRO-5000Ext off of ebay for $341.00 - $125.00 for shipping damage refund for a total of $216.00 that I will be quickly repairing. I plan to adapt a new RO-DC pump to it, to hybrid it in efficiency of consumption. The pump uses 45Watts for the recirculation pump and use the return pump to feed it.
OK, so I had this skimmer for 6 months now and It is non stop tweaking just because the water will fluctuate 1/2" in height every so often. It over flows after every power off ,so you can't shut it down to feed. I do water changes with it off and have to retune it after, even after I bring water to same level. So I don't recommend You buy one of these unless you want a lot of work! I also own a coral life 150G cone skimmer which is a little better but not much. You can't do feed shutdowns or blackout/brown outs it will over flow.
I just bought a Super Reef Octopus SRO-5000Ext off of ebay for $341.00 - $125.00 for shipping damage refund for a total of $216.00 that I will be quickly repairing. I plan to adapt a new RO-DC pump to it, to hybrid it in efficiency of consumption. The pump uses 45Watts for the recirculation pump and use the return pump to feed it.
Here my
"not so popular" Coralife Cone Skimmer
Its rated for 300 gallons under heavy stocking of the tank
The pump is a needle wheel installed by coralife, AC 110v 60hz aprox flow is 650 -700gph (for now) plan to mod to a new Diablo dc pump soon
The Base 14 1/2 X 9 3/4 X 26" high
It has a diffuser plate that works very good
I did lots of mods to it to get it to work reliably, I'm happy with it.