C&C marine HOT skimmer

[marie]

So I'm trying out the new hang on tank skimmer rated to 125G. This thing is big and ugly, not something for a 10g nano but it can produce an amazing amount of bubbles.
First impressions...the cup is going to be hard to clean

After starting it up I found it a bit noisy, the airline is going to need to be muffled and the return has a bit of a gurgle but check out the bubbles

lastly, once again I think the collection cup is poorly designed, here you can see that the bubbles are travelling up the outside of the cup to the top of the skimmer


and this is what you see inside the tank, the skimmer is dumping bubbles into the tank at the moment but it is breaking in and I expect that will stop in the next day or 2


This skimmer so far is skimming great and I think worth the purchase price of $349
http://www.cncmarinesupply.com/skimmers.php
I haven't been impressed with the HOT skimmers I have tried up till now (bak pak, prism pro, remora pro)