What skimmer are you using? Are you happy with it?

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Royal exclusiv bubble king or old pre 2022 ATB
Had a ultra reef borei and never got it quite dialed perfect the larger ones look like a better set up the build quality was insanely good possibly a touch better than my BK mini
Had a ton of reef octopus they are a good budget skimmer.
They all do their job just buy the gear ya like
 
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simplicity 320 is amazing on my 160G. price and quality are better than higher priced skimmers.

 

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I have a curve 5 too, and i think it is amazing, it had virtually no break in period and you can get a really nice dark skim with minimal adjustments, found it is best 8 and a half inches underwater
 

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I have the Bubble Magus Curve 5 on one tank and the Curve 7 Elite on my other tank. I went with them because they were relatively cheap compared to other brands. I don't recommend them. I've had issues with the pumps getting stuck too easily and it's very sensitive to water level changes. This morning I woke up to a full container of skim mate because it randomly decided to go crazy. Seems to happen once every 1-2 weeks. Very frustrating.
Thats odd, mine seems really stable, how submerged is your curve 5?
 

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Bubble Magus Curve 5.

Fits exactly in the space between sump baffles (I made the sump before finding out the actual footprint of skimmers…), and worked right out of the box with no break in and no fine tuning. Been working for 16 months without issue other than needing its first clean of the pump last week.

Gonna note its in the first sump chamber, whose water level is always exactly constant because it’s a weir above the chamber with the ATO.
 

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A lot of good skimmers out there, more recently got the aqua vitro division, I really like it.i think it works pretty good! Yes there is a small filter sock yes it will get dirty. However after a while I just replaced it with a piece of pvc, a cool thing in the beginning from start up had no micro bubbles in the sump, it didn’t need a break in period. Yes sort of an ugly skimmer but I really like the way it works for me.
 

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I’m running two skimmers on my 300g.
Reef octopus and Lifereef.
Love the reef octopus. Works great.
Don’t love the lifereef. Really loud and doesn’t pull as much as my RO.
 

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Reef octo everytime, used them for 15 plus years with great results and QUIET!
 

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Broke down my Ultra Reef Akula 180 for its first cleaning yesterday (tank started 7/28/2024). Very impressive build quality. Easy to disassemble and put back together, well engineered and executed.

Had two trochus snails living in it :/, got them back into the display. When your inverts are doing a little too well :) red banded trochus snails breeding profusely in my system.

Still 100 percent impressed with this skimmer. Also this was the best deal I got for my tank equipment wise. BRS blew them out for under $300. Still can’t believe it. I’m usually not the person who gets deals like that!
 

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