Bubble King Skimmer Reviews

[S.D]

Hi John,

Thank you for your reply, it is much appreciated.

I should correct myself, we'll end up with three small fish and a clean up crew (most of the rock will be located in the sump, however there will be a few pieces for the fish to hide out in but other than that the tank is just being used to farm the ricordeas....we will also have snails and a few small blue legged hermit crabs) so I guess in that case there will be more waste then originally anticipated, having said that...still not to much because of the lack of fish.

It's interesting that you should mention the conical shaped skimmers because we were also looking at the Korallen-Zucht Revolution Skimmer just this morning and it has the conical technology as well.

Thank you for your suggestions and input...the ATB conical shaped skimmer looks very interesting to us...we will research it out.

Sarina

[seanoman]

I have a BK 300 external and absolutely love it. I believe it is the same one that Jason Mck runs on his tank and it has great results.

[S.D]

Hi Christy,

Thank you for your reply, we appreciate it very much!

We very much like the BK but were very concerned about it taking a lot of the nutrients out of the water. It seems to be an awesome unit but maybe not for our application. Our ricordeas are just flourishing and splitting very nicely on their own and we wouldn't want that to be hampered in anyway.

Yes indeed, being reefers we all sink a pile of money into the marvelous hobby don't we?!?!?! It's more costly then purchasing nice jewellery!!! LOL!!

Sarina

[S.D]

Hi Seanoman,

Thank you for your review on your BK....they are quite amazing skimmers I understand, it's good to hear that you are having great results!

Do you have many fish in your aquarium or more corals than fish?

Sarina

[VFX]

Just a some quick questions...

If your rics are flourishing & splitting nicely in your current set up, would it be wise to change things?

What is your set up at the moment?

What skimmer are you currently running?

What else are you doing for nutrient export?

Why did you decide to change skimmers?

Are you having problems with your current set up with nutrient build up?

Not trying to grill you!

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[S.D]

Hi VFX,

No worries, I’m not feeling grilled at all with your questions.

- The big tank isn’t up yet and we’re planning ahead because we will be having even a greater amount of ricordeas to farm with the way our ricordeas are flourishing presently.

- We currently have a Schuran running in the 25 gallon and it is working fine, we purchased the other Schuran at a good price for a back up.

- We purchased a Euro Reef RS80 for the bigger tank and then found an RC80 for an even better price and purchased that thinking that we may use that as the primary skimmer and use the RS80 as a back up.

- Then we purchased an H&S 110-F2000 without a pump for next to nothing and we’ll be purchasing a pump for it shortly. We were considering using this as a primary pump until we started looking into the Bubble King skimmers and now the Korallen-Zucht.

- Once we decide which skimmer to go for, most of the other ones will be sold.

- We will be using two Phosphate reactors, one for Rowa phos and the other for carbon occasionally for the big tank and this is what we are doing with the 25 gallon presently.

- We are not having any problems with a nutrient build up with our 25 gallon, the ricordeas a doing terrific and are thriving big time, the cleanup crew we have do a terrific job if there is any food left over from feeding…we’re just running out of room with all of the ricordeas and need a larger tank.

Sarina

[Jason McK]

Yes I have the BK 300 External. Amazing skimmer very well built.

But I agree with most when they say Rics will do much better in dirty water.

The best LPS tank I've ever seen was Willow's (AKA John) and he didn't have a skimmer at all.

J

[S.D]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your review and thoughts.

Yes, ricordeas as well as zoas grow very well in "dirty" water and this was our main concern with going with the BK.

Glad to hear you're having good success with your Bubble King...very nice unit indeed.

Sarina