Skimmer. Possible Upgrade for me

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kwl1763

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OK so I'm a freak. I have a monstrousity of a dual beckettt that is 6ft and skims like a madman



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These two pictures are with a whopping 2 fish in the tank (over 600G of water)

I thinking of making a change for a couple reasons

1) Noise. This sucker is loud. Between the Iwaki 100 and the Becketts it's like a train. Plumbing the air intake outside helped but still loud

2) Power consumption. The Iwaki 100 uses almost 3 amps. A needlewheel (deltec, H&S, etc) would use around 1.

3) It would free up some room. I don't really need it to much but I am about to plumb in a RDSB, etc. so it wouldn't hurt.

4) I could run it in sump. Just in case my cutoff didn't work sometime even though it has worked flawlessly I'm murphy's prime eample.


So am I crazy. should I stick with what I have. I figure that it will cost me at least $500 net to switch to a BM250, H&S 200x3, Bubbleking 300, or my ultimate a Deltec 902 .

So someone give me a sanity check and tell me to just deal with the one I have!
 
Hey, you wanted it. Now you have to sleep with it. I mean, you made your bed, and now you have to skim it.... no.. wait... um...

I'm sure some sound dampening material in the corner (like the foam eggcrate) could help lower the volume. Have you modified your beckett with a bunch of tiny holes yet, plugging up the larger holes? That should silence them some.

Regarding electricity consumption - that is actually the main decision. You'll sell this one and spend money on a new skimmer, but what will it cost you per month of real-time use? That's where the savings will really occur.
 
I say go for it. I switched out my mrc-2 beckett for an ASM g4-x and I couldn't be happier. It's quiter, uses less power and I think, skims just as good.

I think a new BM250 would rock. I was thinking about switching my g4-x for a BM200, but I might modify the needlewheel on this skimmer first.
 
Tremelle, you truly have champagne taste. :shock:
 
@iamquockie wrote:
that ap2602 run a whopping 16k? said:
That looks a lot more like 17k to me, and that doesn't include the self cleaning head, shipping, or the amount of money each month it would take to run it. Thanks, but I'll wait a bit.

BigScott
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