Help decide new skimmer

[asylumdown]

Advanced Aquarist did a nice write up of the RLSS skimmers, those DC pumps seem to be all the rage these days. If I were picking I'd probably go with that one, though I'd want to hear from someone on how much noise either of them made first.

[riceboy]

i have the rlss r6i and can't hear a thing, so i would suspect the r8i will be the same

[asylumdown]

How's the DC pump? Do you ever find yourself adjusting the pump speed?

[reefwars]

rlss all the way

[riceboy]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

How's the DC pump? Do you ever find yourself adjusting the pump speed?

its not bad, i just adjust it once when i first started to get a thicker skimmate by lowering the power to get more bubbles in the cup lol. i just like the feed feature so while feeding frozen food, my skimmer doesn't go crazy and overflow. so far i'm loving it, skimmate is a lot thicker

[FrenchAchilles]

Do you guys believe the ratings of what size of systems these can handle. There have been many past skimmer that people have found out where way over rated.

[FrenchAchilles]

Just more food for thought concerning the ratings. When you look at these using the same dc pumps and even more air the ratings are a lot less the rlss skimmers.

http://coralvue.com/pro-openvolute-protein-skimmer/

[don.ald]

Originally Posted by asylumdown

How's the DC pump? Do you ever find yourself adjusting the pump speed?

Originally Posted by reefwars

rlss all the way

Wondering, what is the benefit to having a skimmer with variable speed pump?
R.