These skimmers seem to skim very well but the pumps have always been the shortcoming of them....seems like the best thing to do with these skimmers is buy a replacement pump right off the get go.....the problem Laurie had was, her cone was two or three years old and SWC changed something with the way the pumps mounted to the volute or changed the volute itself.....she had a heck of a time trying to find the right askoll pump to mate up with.....finally ended up lucking out and found a PJs pets that was blowing out some old laguna pond pumps that had the askoll block with the proper mounting configuration...
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260g mixed reef, 105g sump, water blaster 7000 return, Bubble King SM 300 skimmer, Aqua Controller Jr, 4 radions, 3 Tunze 6055s,1 tunze 6065, 2 Vortech MP40s, Vortech MP20, Tunze ATO, GHL SA2 doser, 2 TLF reactors (1 carbon, 1 rowa). http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50034 . Tank Video here http://www.vimeo.com/2304609 and here http://www.vimeo.com/16591694
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