- Location
- Staten Island ny
As some of you already know , I am a skimmer maniac ! I have gone through almost 10 skimmers in 4 years and now I got my mittens on the coral box curve d700 skimmer .
I had the luxury of borrowing this skimmer for 3 weeks from a friend who works in a lfs I frequent and he only asked that I keep my opinion honest if I make a thread on it so here it goes.
This skimmer was brand new never used and he let me test it to see if I would like it or not, one thing I would say is that it is built similar to the I tech 200 skimmer except for the pump being internal .
It is not as loud as a lot of skimmers out there but one thing I did notice is that it has a decent size footprint so you may have to give up a bit of real estate to put it into action , and it's a tad taller than my current seaside aquatics cs1 .
Anyway , the other noticeable element of this skimmer is the size of the bubbles , it can make some pretty large bubbles , some people love trillions of micro bubbles versus big bubbles but this is what it does so to each his own .
Overall at a ticket price of $255 it's a decent skimmer but I would have to say I took it back to him with the feeling that it is a basic run of the mill skimmer , I prefer a slightly bigger pump with a smaller body , and definitely not crazy about it being fairly new to the market.....overall I'm glad I tried it out and I greatly appreciate it ( rob) but I think for a few more bucks you can definitely get a skimmer of a higher caliber unless your into the idea of yet another controller
To play around with ! ( adjustable controller is nothing special)
So if you have a tight budget and just need a simple skimmer go for it , if your into deep crud removal and higher end spending , don't bother , hope this helps , happy reefing.
I had the luxury of borrowing this skimmer for 3 weeks from a friend who works in a lfs I frequent and he only asked that I keep my opinion honest if I make a thread on it so here it goes.
This skimmer was brand new never used and he let me test it to see if I would like it or not, one thing I would say is that it is built similar to the I tech 200 skimmer except for the pump being internal .
It is not as loud as a lot of skimmers out there but one thing I did notice is that it has a decent size footprint so you may have to give up a bit of real estate to put it into action , and it's a tad taller than my current seaside aquatics cs1 .
Anyway , the other noticeable element of this skimmer is the size of the bubbles , it can make some pretty large bubbles , some people love trillions of micro bubbles versus big bubbles but this is what it does so to each his own .
Overall at a ticket price of $255 it's a decent skimmer but I would have to say I took it back to him with the feeling that it is a basic run of the mill skimmer , I prefer a slightly bigger pump with a smaller body , and definitely not crazy about it being fairly new to the market.....overall I'm glad I tried it out and I greatly appreciate it ( rob) but I think for a few more bucks you can definitely get a skimmer of a higher caliber unless your into the idea of yet another controller
To play around with ! ( adjustable controller is nothing special)
So if you have a tight budget and just need a simple skimmer go for it , if your into deep crud removal and higher end spending , don't bother , hope this helps , happy reefing.
