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Old 03-20-2014, 02:41 AM
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Mine is a custom made monster... 5 feet tall x 12"D with 4 needle wheel pumps. If I had to choose again, I would go with one larger Venturi pump because keeping all those needle wheels functioning is a PIA.

I still believe that size/height matter. It is about contact time.

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Old 03-20-2014, 12:32 PM
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Ever since I owned my first bubble king I have been a fan

This is the new beast, as a reference that's a full sized boxer.

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Old 03-20-2014, 03:57 PM
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Was going with a high end $$$$ skimmer for my new sps tank but for around the same price bought a top quality 40g sump and 30in. Lifereef skimmer. Churning out tons of crap.
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Old 03-20-2014, 05:07 PM
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Don't mean to hijack
But with large tanks is there any advantage to running 2 skimmers?
My thoughts would be you can clean one while the other is running and if one breaks down , you are still skimming intill you fix the other one?
Or would it be more of a PITA to have 2?
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Old 03-20-2014, 11:01 PM
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It is hard to tweak two skimmers to work optimally at the same time. I think I've read that it can lead to one working well, the other one not working very well.
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