BM Nano Skimmer comes to Canada
 

We are pleased to announce that the long awaited BM-qq Nano skimmer from Bubble Magus has hit our shores.

This amazingly powerful but compact skimmer is ideal for small tanks up to 75Gallon

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ect/BMQQ_2.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...rect/BM-qq.jpg

YouTube Vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFeMW-7l4c

Dimensions: 7.75" x 4.33" x 18" (L*W*H)

Cylinder: 3"

Minimum water depth: 13.7"
Minimum aquarium depth: 15"

Pump: Maxijet 1200 115V 12W with enhanced needlewheel

Capability:
Light Bio-load: 290L
Medium Bio-load: 150L
Heavy Bio-load: 120L

MRSP = $139.00CAD

Contact us now to find a local retailer ;)

WHAt's ur site and do u have any retailer in vancouver

Give Chris a call at interior reef and marine.

Or across the water in Victoria progressive reef are full BM stockists

Adjusting the BMQQ
 

I have one of these suckers and I'm impressed with the quality of it but I'm having a devil of a time dialing it in.

The prinicipal detractor is the complete absence of any meaningful documentation on the product. For all intents and purposes, there isn't any ! No problem I say, this is a skimmer not a rocket ship; how hard can it be ?

Wellllll......pretty damned challenging !

If you connect it as it was designed (with the air hose connected directly to the collection cup) it immediately and continuously overflows the collection cup in less than 60 seconds. So much for that.

If you take the air valve that comes with the Maxijet 1200 and plug the air hose into that instead of the collection cup, then you can throttle it to a point where it won't overflow but it's very touchy. This is a fairly new setup so we'll have to see how it skims in the longer term but skimmate right now is very wet.

Microbubbles. Lots of them. If you connect the air hose to the collection cup, then the 'cloud' of bubbles are as shown in the picture above in this thread and nothing worth talking about ends up in the display tank (I should mention I have this skimmer installed in a DIY HOB sump). When I connect the air hose to the air valve instead, the cup no longer overflows but the 'cloud' grows dramatically and microbubbles pour out the bottom of the skimmer and into the display.

Arghhhhh !

Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Hi

Well bit confused as there is no air valve with any of the units we have in stock, where did you purchase the unit? There is the elbow that screws into the collection cup where the airline is fitted. This is called the air intake kit.

To adjust the skimer you move the body up and down in the bracket until you get the right skimmate, by doing this you are adjusting the back pressure.

The skimmer will skim wet for a while like all skimmers as they bed in.

Instructions - yes we will be removing pigeon English and replacing with Queens ;)

Email me at sales@aqua-digital.com of you need more help as I am not online much at weekends, but am on email.

The valve I'm talking about comes with the Maxijet 1200 that runs the skimmer. Each Maxijet comes with a bag of goodies (mounting brackets, intake covers etc. and it was in there.) I got the skimmer (new) from a fellow CanReefer who had bought 2 end ended up only needing one. It was he that told me to use the valve.

After I posted this morning, I watched a number of videos on this skimmer and noticed that they were all mounted higher out of the water than mine (the bottom of my collection cup is perhaps 2.5" above the water line) and I thought that the water pressure may be causing this so I planned to try moving it up a bit tonight. Lo and behold, that's exactly what you're suggesting !

The irony ? When I got home, it seemed to be skimming quite well ! The upside to the way I have it now (with the valve) is that it's a LOT quieter -not that this is an exceptionally noisy unit.

I'll fiddle a bit with the height and try with/without the valve and see how it goes.

Hi

Glad my support helped. but the valve is NOT part of the BMQQ-2 parts assembly and looking at all BMQQ-1 also there is no valve, I have never heard of the BM-QQ having its inlet air intake restricted this can cause all manner of issues.

So I contacted BM, and no a valve has never been part of the kit, what they think has happened is that a worker left the maxi jet venturi valve that comes with all maxijet pumps in the kit by mistake. I have checked all 23 units here and not one has this valve, so please do not use it. It is not mentioned in the kit list either.

I am glad you are getting it dialed in ;)

I can't be sure because I have 4 Maxijet 1200's around here so it's possible i pulled the valve from a different box but the point is that when you buy a maxijet, it comes with a bag of bits and the valve is one of them.

One thing for sure is that running the skimmer without the valve does not work. I can't lift the skimmer any higher because the maxijet comes out of the water and interferes with other equipment which means the valve is my only means of controlling this.

I'm really looking forward to the day when I have a proper setup with a sump under the tank and the skimmer will go in there !

Hi

So it sounds like the skimmer cant run as designed due to other equipment locations restricting its adjustment, in this case I am not sure what advise i can give :(

The only thing i can say is your not giving the unit long enough to bed in, a skimmer takes up to a week to mature, let is run wet, allow it to get gunky then it will stat to settle in ;)

how will this unit run on a 65gl set-up? I was going to get one for the 25gl tall... but I want to be able to move it up to a 65gl eventually!

Would this fit on a red sea max

On very low bio loading yes, but leaves no room for expansion.

I am running a BM150pro on my 60 gallon.

how much does that go for and is it hob?

Red sea max - depends where abouts, it has two options for hanging, if you can give more details (pics) I can assist more.

BM150pro is sump installed and $379.

Go for the BMqq then upgrade where needs be ;)

lol all my tanks will be sumpless so that won't work! lol but thanks

So what skimmer would you advise for red sea max considering that a RSM is sumpless

I frigg'd with it more last night and managed to get it so that the top of the maxijet is at the water surface. I can't lift it any higher because the maxijet hits the plastic screw that holds the skimmer body in place. Besides, the Maxijet is supposed to be run fully submersed for cooling, no ?

It is now running unthrottled (air hose direct to the cup) and while my wife doesn't like the louder operation, it's running without overflowing now. The skimmate is still wetter than it should be though.

The skimmer has been running for nearly 2 weeks now.

I watched all the YouTube vids I could again last night and I can't understand why all the installations appear to be so high (collection cup height above water). I even saw one guy running the maxijet half out of the water ! From what I can see, the top of the bubbles should be around the bottom of the collection cup wheras mine are about halfway up the cup. Obviously, this is why it's skimming wet.

The BM-qq will be perfect for the 65gal I'm giving you.

Ken

Yep for 65 gallon the BMqq will really do well. it can really pull some cr*p this baby.

The RSM isnt sumpless ... just has a sump in the back and not like the traditional sump under the tank setup....

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The 70mm cylinder (2.76 inches) should fit the back but if you go look at the images, I think the additional space needed by their mounting bracket would make it a no-go in the back of a 130 or 130D. Looks like it would sit up pretty high also - no closed hood or at least no skimmer flap.
--end cut--

Hope that helps ..

The BM-qq is definatly a interesting skimmer.

It is ingenious that they have the air intake tube through skimmercup, to work like an auto-shutoff when the cup is full, as well as a drain. No air no bubbles, no more skimmate.

Only flaws I see so far are the footprint it takes up in a tank, and the narrowness of the clamps for the glass. It won't install without modification with tanks with a trim on them (hagen/marineland/etc), which are the standard you would use this skimmers on.

Ken - BWA

The good news is the new NAC-QQ resolves all this.

I will be talking to BM to modify the BM-QQ in the same way as the clamp is the same.