My new Warner Marine skimmer!

[Delphinus]

Yeah, I heard that six months ago. If you don't mind please keep pestering him about it. Or if you don't mind, PM me his email so I can replace you as the pesterer..

[fkshiu]

Here it is installed with a temporary maxijet feed until I can redo all my plumbing for a gravity feed:



Here's what the dwyer air flow meter says (that's 17 lpm or 1020 lph or 37 SCFH):


Here's its first cup o' nog - not bad at all for the first 24hrs with next to no tuning on my part:


And Tony, I am continuing to bug Mr. Warner re: our home and native land. Finding him is no big secret - WM sponsors several of the bigger reef boards including RC.

[fkshiu]

Well, the skimmer seems to be coming into its own now. It takes out about a cup a day and the skimmate is getting quite sludgy and nasty.

BTW Tony, I've made Mr. Warner aware of this thread.

[Delphinus]

Thanks. I was noticing at least that some of the listed vendors on the WM site now actually list the skimmers. Last time I looked into it, none of them actually showed the skimmers! I had to get a name from one of the RC threads of a store in L.A. that some people had gotten theirs from but they were just a store you had to call up, sort of thing. Nice that there are real mail-order sites listing them now.

Yours is the RX200? The pictures on the site don't show the bubble diffusion plate on the R-series skimmers - only the AS and AR series. Do all the models now support this feature?

[fkshiu]

If you check on the WM website, the RX-series is on the same page as the R-series. Whereas the R is a pretty standard recirc design (a la ER RC-series), the RX adds the bubble plate along with the intake silencer and a true union ball valve for the water feed. The water feed is also moved from the near the top of the skimmer body to the bottom underneath the bubble plate.

Looks like WM is going in whole hog with their skimmer line. They're even going to have a cone skimmer: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1487970

Good to see a company not half-assing things.

[Veng68]

Any idea why the "cone skimmer" is better then other skimmer?

Cheers,
Vic

[fkshiu]

Originally Posted by Veng68

Any idea why the "cone skimmer" is better then other skimmer?

Cheers,
Vic

From what I've read it has to do with the cone shape being able to stabilize and funnel the foam head to one point sort of like how you can increase the velocity of the water coming out of a hose by putting your thumb over the exit hole. It is essentially taking the sloped neck design of most modern skimmers and applying it to the whole body. The jury still seems to be out on how much more effective it is than a "standard" cylindrical skimmer body. Apparently Bubble King looked at a cone design recently and abandoned it.

[Phanman]

WM is coming out with a conical skimmer as well in a few weeks and it looks pretty slick!!! wall to wall foam in the collection cup /droolz

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...5&pagenumber=1

The price is right and alot cheaper then the ATB conical.
Ill be getting one of these if they make it for a 120gal, currently its for a 300gal.

Edit:
Oops looks like you already got a thread to the same page, hehe...

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

Apparently Bubble King looked at a cone design recently and abandoned it.

Well, sort of recently. RE looked at the design way back in 2004 and decided an internal cone with a cylindrical outer body was superior.