Recommend me a skimmer!

[mojo]

those are all 3 days but the vertex was only after 24 hours

 

[TwistedTiger]

those are all 3 days but the vertex was only after 24 hours

Were all skimmers broken in or were they new out the box and into the sump?

 

[mojo]

lol when do I have a skimmer that long to fully break in. Those after one week of running cleaned and 3 days. Let em break in for a week then a 3 day shot.

 

[143gadgets]

Bubble King 650!!!

 

[WWC Verified Sponsor]

hands down for the money reef octopus hurricone cat 2 internal is by far the best, I had the ATB medum ext with airstar pump ($1800)on my 200 gallon Elos and switch to my new cat 2, now i can tell you that the reef octopus outdid the ATB.

 

[mojo]

well i think the budget was $200. I really like the hurricone. great bang for buck for larger systems.

 

[Robthorn]

I am emsters friend with the vertex 200. I am shipping it back because it simply doesn't work in my system. I am supposed to be the only one out of 300 shipped with a complaint. Maybe I got a bad skimmer or part of it or everyone else that got one has a dirty tank. I don't mean to talk bad about anyone's tank because I haven't seen any of them with 200's. I know mine doesn't work. I tried an I-tech 400 on my system and after just under 2 days I had 1/4 inch of pretty dark skimmate. The first day of that I was trying different pumps and settings and the last 18 or so hours I let it just run. I can't say the other 299 vertex 200 cones won't outperformer the I-tech all I can say is the 2 I checked clearly made the I-tech the skimmer to buy. I have a bubble magus 100 running in there side by side with the vertex 200 and the bubble magus has skimmate and the vertex didn't when I left the house. I haven't seen it in a couple days but emmett may have seen it and have a comment with what is going on with it.