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    Avast Marine DIY Cone Skimmer Makes Conical Affordable

    Building on their DIY-kit product line, Avast Marine has introduced their affordable CS1 DIY Cone Skimmer Kit. At $160 + $65 for a Sicce PSK 2500 pump the skimmer is an absolute steal–but it won’t come assembled. That part is up to you. Avast will provide you with literally everything you need to build this [...]

    July 27, 2010
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    Move Over 2500, Sicce PSK 600 and PSK 1000 are the New Skimmer Pumps

    Following up from Sicce’s popular Syncra line, the Italian pump manufacturer has added onto their PSK series, officially pushing the popular Sicce PSK 2500 pump into the shadows of 2009. The new PSK-line additions include PSK 1000 (880gph) and the PSK 600 (661gph).  These pumps take some construction cues from the Syncra line, with a [...]

    June 30, 2010
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    AquaMaxx Becomes US Importer of JNS Skimmers

    Last month Marine Depot put up a YouTube video showing how to replace  pinwheel on an AquaMaxx modified Sicce PSK2500 pump. It was quite clear that AquaMaxx was coming out with a skimmer line; however, we were left wondering if these would be a fresh new design or an established import. My initial reaction was [...]

    June 14, 2010
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    KZ’s New Recirculating Revolution Cone Skimmers

    Korallen Zucht (“KZ”), makers of Zeovit, has shown their new in-sump recirculating skimmer design for their colorful Revolution Cone Skimmer line. The design pulls water from the base of the skimmer through the lockline tubing, while also drawing water through the sump–first passing through a prefilter (the blue container, lower right). Water is then pumped [...]

    June 1, 2010
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    Massive Reef Octopus Skimmer Pulls 10,000 lph

    What do you get when you slap 6 bubble blaster pumps onto a 100 cm (39″) diameter acrylic cylinder? Apparently Honya / Reef Octopus have figured it out on this monsterous skimmer that draws 10,000 lph. We’re told these pictures are from the Honya facility during testing, check out the men standing next to it [...]

    May 27, 2010
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    Elos Adds Needlewheels and Bubble Plates to new PS1000 and PS2000 Skimmers

    InterZoo kicks off at the end of this week and Elos continues to give us hints of what they’ll be showing. The latest are these images of their new PS1000 and PS2000 skimmers. These new models ditch the Eheims and traditional venturi injectors and opt for a new pump with what will likely be fitted [...]

    May 11, 2010
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