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![]() The RS80 should run you $280. It's three times the skimmer but at twice the cost.
Don't get me wrong; I think Coralife is making a great product here for the price range. However, there's a few issues with the Super Skimmer series that I'll address here: - Shoddy construction materials. The plastic feels cheap. It's not the heavy acrylic that feels nice and rigid in your hands. - Low air intake. I don't have an air meter, but visually, I'd say the pump is only able to feed less than a third the air volume into the reaction chamber than the EuroReef. - The pump is low quality. The needlewheel design is kinda.. just okay and the pump itself is probably a Rio. - Very finicky. The adjustment knob is hard to fine tune and the skimmer is prone to flooding at the slightest change in salinity or water level. - Excessive microbubbles. Not a huge issue if it's in the sump. If you're running it HOB though, you're in trouble. Which brings me to the last point. - MASSIVE EQUIPMENT HANGING IN THE TANK when used as an HOB.
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This and that. Last edited by albert_dao; 09-06-2006 at 03:31 AM. |