My new Warner Marine skimmer!

[fkshiu]

I've never been a big believer in skimming the snot out of one's system so I've always stuck to skimmers which probably slightly undersized for my system such as a ER CS6-2 or my old Tunze venturi skimmer. But I've always wanted to see what a monster skimmer would or could do and I've always wanted to try a recirc skimmer. Well, now I have both in the form at a Warner Marine RX200!

It's a big sucka (please excuse the dirty laundry). Gonna have to do some reconstuctive sump surgery to shoehorn this guy in.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5921.jpg


Sexy removable bubble plate. Note the machined concave holes.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5922.jpg

Close up on the sch80 fittings.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5923.jpg

Needlewheel in the sedra 9000HO. The exit has been bored out.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5924.jpg

Tiny bubbles during initial cleaning with water and vinegar
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5931.jpg

Even with just vinegar and water the skimmer produces a very stable foam head
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5929.jpg

Going to put it to work in the next few days as soon as I get some spaflex from McKenzie (thanks, dude)

[Lance]

Sweeeeeeet! Did that come with the modified Sedra 9000HO?

[fkshiu]

Sweeeeeeet! Did that come with the modified Sedra 9000HO?

You betcha it did!

[Der_Iron_Chef]

That's one sexy beast. Looks like some quality construction.

[Chaloupa]

Nice skimmer!!!! I was reading up on them on another site and was quite interested in one....where did you get it?

[Veng68]

Where did you get it from?

Cheers,
Vic

[mseepman]

X3....where did you get that? I was just telling J&L that they should bring WM in.

[Delphinus]

x4 ... I've been bugging some of my LFS's that already sell other Warner Marine products but no skimmers have shown up as yet.

[mseepman]

hopefully Jeff from J&L is paying attention to this forum too then!!

[fkshiu]

I actually got it direct from Warner Marine. I had been bugging Jon Warner himself about getting a Canadian distributor when he offered this skimmer up to be the first one in Canada. I leapt at the opportunity and he pretty much sold it to me at wholesale. To be clear (and to Warner's credit) the skimmer came with no strings attached so I can report on it any way I wish.

Warner Marine does not to direct retail so this was a very exceptional circumstance - I guess I got lucky being the most annoying Canadian. :)

However, Jon did say that they are working on getting their skimmers up to Canada so you should see them hitting our stores soon.

[Delphinus]

Yeah, I heard that six months ago. If you don't mind please keep pestering him about it. Or if you don't mind, PM me his email so I can replace you as the pesterer..

[fkshiu]

Here it is installed with a temporary maxijet feed until I can redo all my plumbing for a gravity feed:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5950.jpg

Here's what the dwyer air flow meter says (that's 17 lpm or 1020 lph or 37 SCFH):
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5937.jpg

Here's its first cup o' nog - not bad at all for the first 24hrs with next to no tuning on my part:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/fkshiu/IMG_5946.jpg

And Tony, I am continuing to bug Mr. Warner re: our home and native land. Finding him is no big secret - WM sponsors several of the bigger reef boards including RC.

[fkshiu]

Well, the skimmer seems to be coming into its own now. It takes out about a cup a day and the skimmate is getting quite sludgy and nasty.

BTW Tony, I've made Mr. Warner aware of this thread. :)

[Delphinus]

Thanks. I was noticing at least that some of the listed vendors on the WM site now actually list the skimmers. Last time I looked into it, none of them actually showed the skimmers! I had to get a name from one of the RC threads of a store in L.A. that some people had gotten theirs from but they were just a store you had to call up, sort of thing. Nice that there are real mail-order sites listing them now.

Yours is the RX200? The pictures on the site don't show the bubble diffusion plate on the R-series skimmers - only the AS and AR series. Do all the models now support this feature?

[fkshiu]

If you check on the WM website, the RX-series is on the same page as the R-series. Whereas the R is a pretty standard recirc design (a la ER RC-series), the RX adds the bubble plate along with the intake silencer and a true union ball valve for the water feed. The water feed is also moved from the near the top of the skimmer body to the bottom underneath the bubble plate.

Looks like WM is going in whole hog with their skimmer line. They're even going to have a cone skimmer: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1487970

Good to see a company not half-assing things.

[Veng68]

Any idea why the "cone skimmer" is better then other skimmer?

Cheers,
Vic

[fkshiu]

Any idea why the "cone skimmer" is better then other skimmer?

Cheers,
Vic


From what I've read it has to do with the cone shape being able to stabilize and funnel the foam head to one point sort of like how you can increase the velocity of the water coming out of a hose by putting your thumb over the exit hole. It is essentially taking the sloped neck design of most modern skimmers and applying it to the whole body. The jury still seems to be out on how much more effective it is than a "standard" cylindrical skimmer body. Apparently Bubble King looked at a cone design recently and abandoned it.

[Phanman]

WM is coming out with a conical skimmer as well in a few weeks and it looks pretty slick!!! wall to wall foam in the collection cup /droolz

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1487970&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

The price is right and alot cheaper then the ATB conical.
Ill be getting one of these if they make it for a 120gal, currently its for a 300gal.

Edit:
Oops looks like you already got a thread to the same page, hehe...

[albert_dao]

Apparently Bubble King looked at a cone design recently and abandoned it.

Well, sort of recently. RE looked at the design way back in 2004 and decided an internal cone with a cylindrical outer body was superior.