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09-21-2003, 03:13 PM
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I think you all are basshing a skimmer which preforms pourly because the people who used them have unrealistic hopes for them. On a 20 gal or smaller a normal sea clone will do good once it is set up right. the problem came from the raiting on the box, up to 80 gal. I ran a sea clone for a test on my tank and was impressed by its attempt to keep up. It pulled about 1/4 the amount of skimmate as my becket did.
if you look at a prisim it is the same, but a prisim won't handle a 80 gal either. I am not sure how they come up with raitings and such but if you basicly cut the raiting by 2/3rds you will have a safe estimat of the real capacity. Another problem with skimmers on small tanks is that people tend to over stock smaller tanks by a large amount. This alone will max out the skimmer preformance well befor the max advertised capability is reached. Steve
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