Things categorized as 'Protein Skimmers'

(preview-image)

Bubble Magus adds Eheim, Aquabee pumps to new cone skimmer line

Posted on November 9th by Ryan Gripp. 12
Bubble Magus is getting serious about their line of cone skimmers. If you've been living in a cave lately, Bubble Magus is known for making copy cat designs, ...
(preview-image)

Silica Dosing: reef blasphemy or another form of nutrient export?

Posted on October 30th by Christine Williams. 5
[caption id="attachment_11628" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Polar ice Diatoms, Dr. Gordon Taylor"][/caption] It has been long held that silica in reef tanks is bad, very, very bad. We avoid beach and play sand ...
(preview-image)

iTech’s slimline model 100 is on a diet

Posted on October 23rd by Ryan Gripp.
iTech is a custom skimmer company that makes various types of skimmers depending on your needs and budget. While making some seriously large protein skimmers, one caught our attention. ...
(preview-image)

NAC7 a cone skimmer from Bubble Magus

Posted on October 19th by Ryan Gripp. 4
Bubble Magus has been known to make low cost, or in other words down right cheap aquarium products and this holds true with their newest cone shaped skimmer. The ...
(preview-image)

Fine-crafted Shoei skimmers show that small Beckett skimmers are still popular in Japan

Posted on October 8th by Brian Blank. 4
Downdraft and Beckett skimmers are still extreme foam fractioning workhorses despite the current trends toward cone and needle wheel designs hitting the market and our reefkeeping brothers and sisters in ...
(preview-image)

Reef Octopus space saver protein skimmer

Posted on September 23rd by Ryan Gripp. 3
A new Reef Octopus cone skimmer model has been spied, this model unlike the recently announced external model appears to be some sort of space saver design. Remember, ...
(preview-image)

Reef Octopus XP 2000 external Cone skimmer

Posted on September 15th by Ryan Gripp. 2
Another new day. Another new skimmer. Like the internal Super Reef Octopus XP cone skimmer, the new external  XP-2000 cone skimmer uses the bubble blaster pump as its ...
(preview-image)

MSX300A protein skimmer from Marine Solutions still isn’t available yet

Posted on September 11th by Ryan Gripp. 3
Way back in May, Marine Solutions announced their new MSX300A protein skimmer. They teased that the price would be $1799 poking fun at higher-end skimmers only to reveal ...
(preview-image)

i-TECH’s new skimmer pump has needlewheel + Laguna goodness

Posted on September 8th by Ryan Gripp.
iTech skimmers has released a new motor upgrade for their skimmers. The upgrade is based off of the Laguna Max-flo 1500 that has  a custom CNC milled volute and ...
(preview-image)

K2 Pinwheel from Warner marine pulls a lot of air

Posted on September 3rd by Ryan Gripp. 3
Warner Marine has released a new pinwheel designed for the K-2 cone skimmer that offers some nice improvements. No doubt you've noticed the smaller diameter and longer pins above ...