Skimmer Recomendations
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kpatrick
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I have been researching Octopus skimmers and they are getting great reviews and are reasonable when it comes to price compared to similar skimmers.
coraljunky
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ETSS, Reef Devil
brandan
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If you want to spend the money, I have heard really good things about the ASM Skimmers, I would personally recommend an ASM G3. If you do not want to spend the money, I love my Coralife Super Skimmer. I have the 65, and the 125 is just as good in quality. I say the ASM if you have a ~$250 budget, or the SS125 for a ~$170 budget. For the price, you can not bet Coralife's Skimmers.
veni vidi vici
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I have a Coralife SS 125 on my 75 gal.and i like it ,was easy to dial in and i havent had any problems with it. However its the first skimmer ive ever had so i cant compair it with anything else.
joncat24
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the octopus skimmers will beat any of the skimmers listed as far as performance except for the deltec. For the money you can get a ddnw 200 for 179 plus shipping if you look hard enuf and it is cheaper than all the others and built way better. It is built out of cast acrylic...the only other one of the above mentioned is deltec. The coralife's used to be good for the money, then they raised the price on them and priced themsleves out of the market IMO.
Buy the octopus....you will be happy.
Buy the octopus....you will be happy.
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kpatrick
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Gotta agree with joncat
sh00tist
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If you want to plug the thing in and dump a container of the nastiest skimmate you have ever seen Id go with a Euroreef. I got an rs5-3 used from a buy/sell board for 170.00 shipped and I wouldnt trade it for any other brand short of a Bubbleking. No fuss,no dialing it in plug it in and forget about it.
stanlalee
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Originally Posted by joncat24
the octopus skimmers will beat any of the skimmers listed as far as performance except for the deltec. For the money you can get a ddnw 200 for 179 plus shipping if you look hard enuf and it is cheaper than all the others and built way better. It is built out of cast acrylic...the only other one of the above mentioned is deltec. The coralife's used to be good for the money, then they raised the price on them and priced themsleves out of the market IMO.
Buy the octopus....you will be happy.
what he said. There are only three brands of skimmers that perform like the big boys for little money that I know of: Octopus, DAS and AquaEuro but of those only the octopus is easy to find anywhere, easy to find replacement parts and common mods to do easy to find.
I have a coralife SS125 on my 100g and it gets the job done but I only paid $107 brand new. I couldn't pass up that price but for what it cost now I would have just gone with my original plans of small octopus recirc or turboflotor.
the octopus skimmers will beat any of the skimmers listed as far as performance except for the deltec. For the money you can get a ddnw 200 for 179 plus shipping if you look hard enuf and it is cheaper than all the others and built way better. It is built out of cast acrylic...the only other one of the above mentioned is deltec. The coralife's used to be good for the money, then they raised the price on them and priced themsleves out of the market IMO.
Buy the octopus....you will be happy.
what he said. There are only three brands of skimmers that perform like the big boys for little money that I know of: Octopus, DAS and AquaEuro but of those only the octopus is easy to find anywhere, easy to find replacement parts and common mods to do easy to find.
I have a coralife SS125 on my 100g and it gets the job done but I only paid $107 brand new. I couldn't pass up that price but for what it cost now I would have just gone with my original plans of small octopus recirc or turboflotor.