Reef octopus NW-110-6520B

[ripped tide]

Hey guys, looking for your personal experiences with this skimmer.

Do you prefer wet or dry skimming? Did the water level in your sump dramatically effect how the skimmer works?

Thanks all.

 

[ff337]

I have this skimmer. NW-110-6530 <div class="gc_ifarem_title">REEF OCTOPUS NW-110-6530 - YouTube</div>

Mine drains into a milk jug, not collected into the cup. Works pretty good. I'm upgrading to a larger skimmer though.

 

[ripped tide]

Do you wet skim or dry skim?

Edit: Mine is the model that has a gate valve instead of a wedge pipe

 

[ff337]

I tend to wet skim. Occassionally it does pull a dark green skim.

 

[ripped tide]

When you wet skim, were do you keep your water level inside the slimmer? Let's reference in inches either below or above the bottom of the collection cup.

Right now, I am keeping my foam head about 2inches below the collection cup...

 

[ff337]

That sounds about right. Maybe 1" in some cases. I reckon I wet skim really because the tube is going into a gallon jug rather than staying in the cup.

I think I would like the valve better the wedge is too sensitive. I use to over flow quite a bit til I learned the system.

 

[ripped tide]

Lol yeah, that's why I went out of the way to get this skimmer. I have seen other skimmers with the wedgeds I wasn't a huge fan just due to the sensitivity.

It is still getting broken in (about 2.5 weeks now) and I am not noticing a whole lot of activity(mainly dry skimming). The tank is a very low nutrient system. No NO3, no PO4. I feed an extremely small amount and request most of my fish to feed off the reef.


Do you feed heavily? What is you total water volume and nutrient levels? J/c. Thanks for your responses so far.

 

[ff337]

I have had a lot of education recently.

Display is 120 gallons sump is ~40 gallons. I used to feed heavy. Pretty heavy lps stock load. Around 10 sps corals.

All parameters are now at zero. Po4 was high before. I run gfo and carbon now.

Edit: I'm getting a 3000int soon though.

 

[ripped tide]

Cool, thanks for your input.