crabs new 24" cube

[i have crabs]

i have 2 on my other tank and am very happy,this one is making a slight noise but i havnt tried to hard to quiet it up, i did have a nice wave goin but the splashing into the overflow was too much to lisen to all day

[i have crabs]

i was doing some tests on the other tanks last night so i checked for nitrate in the cube and over 25ppm has built up since last sunday, so i guess i was right that rottin sand and dried live rock would kick up a cycle in a hurry,i havnt even bothered to take a few scoops of sand live sand from another tank yet but i should probably get on it,ill maybe wait another week and do a huge waterchange which will give me a chance to try and slip a shim under the tank and even it out a bit

[lastlight]

I had a nightmare of a time getting replacement parts for my RD2000 and finally a whole new pump. Even with a supposedly working pump the skimmer can be heard when turned on with my stand doors shut and only the Dart Gold (pretty quiet) running. It's certainly not SILENT as so many say and there is a slight hum. I think the word is abused by many...it's much quieter than my old ASM was but for the coin and promises I felt a tad let down.

Still lovin' those rocks on the wall.

[i have crabs]

i thought it was the return pump making the humm but when you unplug the skimmer the tank is dead silent, like i said the air intake is quiet, very quiet compared to my 2 euroreef's but the humm is a bit annoying due to the tank being in the living room and thats why i spent the money on a high end skimmer

[lastlight]

Feel your pain =) Overall my system is pretty quiet. Certainly tolerable whereas my old one took some getting used to. I may add some sound foam to some areas on my stand interior.

[Canadian]

I wonder if there's a difference in the noise between the generation 1 (what you have) and generation 2 BK 160? I don't know where you got your skimmer but the gen. 2 skimmers have been out for a while so I'm assuming whoever the retailer was had old stock kicking around.

I'm getting a BK 160 as well but I'm trying to make sure I get a gen. 2 model. I've heard mixed reviews on the gen. 2 "upgrades" so who knows if there even is much of a difference. For comparison, here's a picture of a gen. 2 BK 160. One of the differences you should notice right away is that the air silencer is now incorporated into the output as opposed to being 2 pieces in the gen. 1. Also, the air tube on the gen. 2 is a larger diameter than it is on the gen.1:

[i have crabs]

i didnt know that they had some changes untill after i got it, its the same pump though and thats where my issue is, im shure its gonna skim just fine and ill have to just get used to the slight noise.
saying that, who knows if i went with something else thier could be even more noise

[Canadian]

Is that you on RC who has their LFS replacing the impeller to see if that changes the noise which everyone else is saying is abnormal?

[i have crabs]

nope not me, i kinda doubt the noise is abnormal, it just seems like thats how it is,
anyway,i hooked up the extra phosban reactor i had with a mix of carbon and gfo from bulkreefsupply, sunday i had a big explosion of diatoms so i cut down th lights to 2 bulbs for a while, the vortec has ben running at about 1/2 speed for now so i turned it up and all the sand from the front of the tank is ending up at the back of the tank now so i hope this will not be so bad when i have more rocks in thier cause a 2" bare bottom strip at the front will really pee me off, im gonna try and go get some acrylic rod for the rockwork in the next week and hopefully a can afford a few hundred bucks worth of rock so i do some work on that

[Canadian]

I don't know how noisy you're finding your skimmer is but the general consensus in this thread is that the skimmer should be virtually silent:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...readid=1571129