Things tagged as protein skimmer.

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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 ...
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Compact 6 Protein Skimmer from Grey Seas Aquatics balances performance and value

Posted on October 28th by Jake Adams.
The Compact 6 protein skimmer from Grey Seas Aquatics is a surprising balancing act of quality and value, performance and ease of servcing. The Compact 6 protein skimmer ...
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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. ...
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Deltec announces self-cleaning head unit for SC and TC skimmers

Posted on October 21st by Brian Blank.
Deltec has just announced new cleaning heads for the company's new line of SC and TC protein skimmers we recently wrote about, keeping your skimmer clean and operating as ...
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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 ...
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Deltec’s new TC 3070S protein skimmer sucks a ton of air

Posted on September 14th by Ryan Gripp.
You thought that Deltec was set with their new line of SC and TC skimmer lines. So did we. But they aren't. A new TC3070S model has popped up. ...
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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 ...
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VS Series from Euro Reef VS 135 gets its picture taken

Posted on September 3rd by Ryan Gripp.
Euro Reef's new VS series protein skimmer has been pushed via several marketing campaigns for a while now but no pictures of the actual unit have surfaced on the ...

Deltec TC 3070 gets an owner, puts up a video

Posted on August 18th by Ryan Gripp.
When we first broke the news about Deltec's new hot iPod white skimmers we loved them the moment we saw them.  This video that has surfaced shows us a couple ...

Deltec TC SC skimmer captured on video

Posted on July 17th by Ryan Gripp. 5
While the world has been patiently awaiting (Europe should have their units already) the new TC/SC skimmer lines from Deltec to be released for public consumption, we are left with ...