My reef Creations MR-3 protein skimmer

[Lance]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

the key to a great beckett is to power the heck out of the becketts with a huge pump to cause millions or millions of bubble and a long contact time. with a good style beckett you can clean anything and clean the scales off the fish too......

Which pump do you recommend? The website for MRC recommends the PCX55 or Panworld 150PS or 200 PS. Should I go bigger?

[Skimmerking]

Lance if the skimmer is 1 beckett i would use a good pressured rated pump with it like a mak 5 something like that.. as long as you have a good size pipe going to the beckett like with mine i had 1" going into the becketts. with a dual pipe so some of the head loss was there too.
i have read that a mak 4 will run a mrc 3 but i would go with a mak 5 pressure now you have a power house , if you ever go to another beckett on that skimmer then yuou don't need to upgrade the pump again ....

[wickedfrags]

I use a Mak 5 on my beckett, swapped it out about 2 years+ back. Try to get 4x your system's water volume though the skimmer (after head loss) and you should be happy with the performance.

[Lance]

Thanks everyone for the advice. Much appreciated. Sounds like I'm getting a pretty good skimmer. As for the pump, I'm going with the Iwaki MD 70RLT. That bad boy is sure to whip up some serious bubbles.