Which one?

[triga22]

Originally Posted by Hurt
Vinegar is fairly strong acid. As such it is great for cleaning equipment for your tanks. I keep an old salt bucket(5g) and put 3 gallons of white vinegar in it. Every 1-2 months I take out my pumps, skimmers, and powerheads and let them soak for a day. This really cleans them out very well, and they work much better after I do this. I always rinse them in RO/DI before I put them back in the tank of course. Vinegar is not harmful to a fish tank, unless you pour loads of it in, again it's a fairly strong acid and will lower pH significantly if enough is present.
Here is a picture of both my skimmer tops after 8 days, Prizm on left...Remora on right. So will someone please tell me why the Prizm is such an inferior skimmer and the Remora is top of the line?
Do you leave the powerheads running or just let them set???

 

[jessecnc]

Go with the coralife skimmer. Best bang for the buck..Period. I think it is much better than the CPR from talking with a lot of people. I researched skimmers for the last year before deciding on the CSS.

 

[triga22]

Alright I made my choice of the Coralife

 

[hurt]

Originally Posted by Ryan115
Also Hurt, the amount of skimmate coming out of the skimmer is not the only thing, it is also the quality of the skimmate. Yes the cup might be filling up but if it is a lightly tinted mixture, whereas others will be pulling out almost sludge, then you are basically just wasting water.
Not at all, my prizm does not wet skim at all how I have it set up. While my Remora is more of a wet skim comparably. The colors of each are almost identical. You can see the light color in the Remora to the right, far from what I have seen a needle-wheel do. Also if you look at each skim cup while they are just about the same height, but the Prizm actually has a larger area because it is much wider than the Remora. I just cleaned each cup today, but in one week I will take a top-down picture so you can see the differences in each are pretty much non-existent.
If the Remora is such a great skimmer, the Prizm is too. If the Prizm sucks, the Remora sucks. Again I run both and see little difference in each. However my nitrates and phosphates are always at zero, so I see no reason to go by a needle-wheel or Becket-injected skimmer.

 

[hurt]

Originally Posted by TriGa22
Do you leave the powerheads running or just let them set???
Just let them soak for a day or so.

 

[triga22]

alright

 

[acrylic51]

Bottom line you get what you pay for in most cases and this is exactly the case.....Prizm skimmers are "wastes" they don't skim efficiently and consistently and need constant adjusting......Coralife are cheap knock offs that you'll be replacing shortly down the road when you realize you should have just spent the extra cash and bought an ASM or if you want to spend more money a Euro, or Deltec......
Again none of the skimmers mentioned Red Sea or Coralife are top bangers when it comes to skimmers.....Do you homework and research and there are threads on other forums that you can check out and see real skimmers in action

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by TriGa22
Alright I made my choice of the Coralife

I have a coralife and it works great. One thing I don't like about it though is the way the collection cup towers over the back of the tank.

 

[stanlalee]

Originally Posted by acrylic51
......Coralife are cheap knock offs that you'll be replacing shortly down the road when you realize you should have just spent the extra cash and bought an ASM or if you want to spend more money a Euro, or Deltec......

kinda or hypocritical bashing the coralife as a cheap knock off and endorsing the ASM which are cheap knock offs of Euroreef skimmers and the most blatent of all knock offs. I dont really see where Coralife is a knock off, because its a needle wheel skimmer? At worse its a knock off of a knock off or a cheaper knock off of what ASM knocks off.