Online vendor Reef Specialty is teasing us with the new Diablo cone skimmer available shortly exclusively at Reef Specialty. The Diablo is designed for smaller tank owners looking to get the performance of a cone skimmer in a smaller footprint. The cone is a 6-inch base with a 3-inch neck with a total footprint of [...]
With a retail price of $199 and $249 for the SWC 120 and 160 cone skimmers respectively, any prospective buyer should be skeptical of freakishly low price for a cone skimmer. The entry level cone skimmer buyer should be asking themselves “what’s the catch?” but after handling both models for the better part of yesterday [...]
The new Super Reef Octopus XP 1000S have finally hit North American shores. The XP 1000s is a hang on back cone skimmer that features a bright red acrylic finish. If you have a red Ferrari tank, it should match quite nicely. The Reef Octopus is powered by a Bubble Blaster HY 1000 skimmer pump [...]
ATB’s Giga Deluxe Cone skimmer stands over 1.75 meters tall (5′ 9″) and its a sight to see in person. The Giga cone skimmer is powered by 3 airstar 3000 pumps which use the 4200 motorblocks of Askoll pumps. To get a sense of scale you can look at the small pop can up front [...]
ATB’s newest cone protein skimmer is called the Elegance and available in the “large” size. This hefty sized skimmer like some other ATB products features the cone shape going all the way up into the collection cup which should help increase efficiency. Along with that though it uses a double bubble plate which will increase [...]
ATB’s newest cone skimmer called the Mikro “Nano” is set to be released soon. This new skimmer will run an eheim 1250 pump and the Mikro will be great for tanks up to 600 liters (158 gallons). This nano cone skimmer that ATB has created uses a seamless body which has us drooling but still [...]
JNS Aquaria, a company you’ve probably never heard of but produces a lot of products for brands across the world has a new line of cone skimmers named after sharks. Thats right. Sharks. To date there are two models to choose from, JNS Shark 2 and 3. The specs of the shark cone skimmers are [...]
A new line of cone protein skimmers by start-up EXtreme Reef are making a splash in Israel and should be making their way to Europe in the near future. The company’s founders are R&D engineers in the burgeoning Israeli hi-tech market and hobbyists to boot. Their design took each advantage of we’ve seen from current [...]
The Saltwater Connection, makers of fine inexpensive protein skimmers have new models in the works. Both of these new models are cone skimmers as is the current rage within the industry. The first model SWC160 Cone has a 9″ x 7″ x 20″ footprint running a atman 2500 hybrid pinwheel. That pump is expected to [...]
ATB has took it upon themselves to give their 1050 cone skimmer a refresh to 1.5 status. Like other 1.5 updates to skimmer designs you’ll see a more polish design and look that better reflects ATB’s high end quality. The original ATB 1050 protein skimmer looks poor compared to the new 1.5 update. While the [...]
