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Because of a move, having to live in a rental home, and waiting at least a year until my home is built - I was forced to sell my large H&S skimmer because I won't have a "wetroom" for a while. I got it from Finsreef. I had a dual Eheim 1260, and decided I wanted a triple 1260 - which was a stupid (Bryan told me so but I didn't believe him 
). The dual MORE than kept up with my 340 - extremely tang heavy, and lots of feedings. BUT ... it was amazing to see what a skimmer like this can do.
I ended up selling the skimmer, and am replacing it with a BK300 External. I am happy that finsreef is carrying the line now - I have been working with him for a while and he is fantastic. His product line and customer service is second to none. Being 50% Asian and 50% German, I'm 100% techie geek, love new products, great engineering, staying ahead of the curve. Oh, I'm 100% beer loving fool also
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These are parting shots of the 3x1260. It cost me about $2,200 - the same as the BK300 External. The pumps generate about 875LPH each and the BK300 is somewhere around 2,000LPH total so unless there is something magical with the BK I'm skeptical it can keep up with the same priced H&S. But extremely hopeful. These shots were about 36-48 hours of skimming and the cup actually filled in about 24 hours or so. My skimmer had been down for a week. The cup holds about 1.5 gallons.
There are a few more pix on my website
http://homepage.mac.com/dfliger/PhotoAlbum1.html
The BK gets here in a couple weeks, and my tank will be skimmerless for that time. I really hope the BK turns out the gunk asap, the H&S has absolutely zero break-in time.
The challenge is on!!!!
(BTW I stuck with H&S over Deltec mostly because of cost. The same Deltec with 3x1260's was about $1,000 more. Plus I like the acrylic over the black ABS Deltec uses, it's very critical IME to get the skimmer to work optimally).
). The dual MORE than kept up with my 340 - extremely tang heavy, and lots of feedings. BUT ... it was amazing to see what a skimmer like this can do.I ended up selling the skimmer, and am replacing it with a BK300 External. I am happy that finsreef is carrying the line now - I have been working with him for a while and he is fantastic. His product line and customer service is second to none. Being 50% Asian and 50% German, I'm 100% techie geek, love new products, great engineering, staying ahead of the curve. Oh, I'm 100% beer loving fool also
.These are parting shots of the 3x1260. It cost me about $2,200 - the same as the BK300 External. The pumps generate about 875LPH each and the BK300 is somewhere around 2,000LPH total so unless there is something magical with the BK I'm skeptical it can keep up with the same priced H&S. But extremely hopeful. These shots were about 36-48 hours of skimming and the cup actually filled in about 24 hours or so. My skimmer had been down for a week. The cup holds about 1.5 gallons.
There are a few more pix on my website
http://homepage.mac.com/dfliger/PhotoAlbum1.html
The BK gets here in a couple weeks, and my tank will be skimmerless for that time. I really hope the BK turns out the gunk asap, the H&S has absolutely zero break-in time.
The challenge is on!!!!
(BTW I stuck with H&S over Deltec mostly because of cost. The same Deltec with 3x1260's was about $1,000 more. Plus I like the acrylic over the black ABS Deltec uses, it's very critical IME to get the skimmer to work optimally).
. What model do you have & what number of skimmer pumps support the feeder pump? Thnx. Bob
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