Bubble Magus NAC-6A Skimmer

Ron99 · #1 01-05-2010, 11:26 PM

Just received this yesterday. Here's a few pics after running in water and vinegar for a while. It's currently breaking-in in an old 10 gallon tank full of used salt water. So far I am impressed. Looks very well built and it is making a nice white milky bubble mixture in the skimmer. This will be a nice improvement on my Coralife 65

More details to follow...

I also picked up this but won't be setting it up for a little while yet:

It also come with a really nice acrylic mounting stand:

banditpowdercoat · #2 01-05-2010, 11:34 PM

How much was the skimmer and where did you get it??

Ron99 · #3 01-05-2010, 11:49 PM

Skimmer was just under CDN $140 from reefshops dot com. Took a little over a week to get here from China even with the New Year holiday in there.

Ron99 · #4 01-05-2010, 11:50 PM

Of course shipping was another $75 but that was split between the skimmer and dosing pump so basically it was under $180 all in for me.

Tom R · #5 01-05-2010, 11:59 PM

Very Nice Ron

Tom R

Delphinus · #6 01-06-2010, 12:06 AM

The dosing pump looks promising!

banditpowdercoat · #7 01-06-2010, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron99

Skimmer was just under CDN $140 from reefshops dot com. Took a little over a week to get here from China even with the New Year holiday in there.

WHOAAA!!! Me likey!!. I'm looking at a BM cone now :P

PS, I see alot of either Knock Off's OR, the true product that we buy here, only rebadged for North American sale. eg, the SunSun Vibration Pump in the wavemakers section. Looks an awefully like a Koralia 2. AND they even say it used Hydor tech!!! So, did they copy Hydor, Or, is the Koralia's we buyu just rebadged SunSun's?

Ron99 · #8 01-06-2010, 04:26 PM

Here's a quick shot of the foaming action in the holding tank. I think it is ready for my sump today...

banditpowdercoat · #9 01-06-2010, 04:30 PM

Kicks the crap outa my DIY recirc skimmer LOL

What size is your tank again?

Ron99 · #10 01-06-2010, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

PS, I see alot of either Knock Off's OR, the true product that we buy here, only rebadged for North American sale. eg, the SunSun Vibration Pump in the wavemakers section. Looks an awefully like a Koralia 2. AND they even say it used Hydor tech!!! So, did they copy Hydor, Or, is the Koralia's we buyu just rebadged SunSun's?

Yeah, I see lots of people complaining about the quality of Chinese products but most of the products we buy are made in China. Somebody once told me a credible story about how Ralph Lauren would put an order in for 100,000 Polo shirts to the factory in Taiwan or wherever it was. The factory would charge $X per shirt plus the tooling up costs. They would then run off 125,000 shirts, 100,000 with the Polo label on them and put their own label on the extra 25,000 shirts which would sell at a fraction of the cost of the polo shirt. Same shirt, different label.

Now, that being said, there may definitely be some difference in the quality of parts used etc. for equipment depending on who is designing the specs. But a skimmer is pretty straightforward and these look very well put together. Nicer then a standard Vertex or Octopus etc. I haven't had a good look at a Bubble King or the new vertex cones in the flesh to compare but I doubt the BK is 5 times better then the BM. As for the Koralia pumps, just look at the box and it should tell you where it is made. I don't have one handy here. The Maxi-jet box I have says made in Italy. But the parts could come from China and we know how Italian cars are built so maybe that's not a great selling point