The Quick-Precise Adjustment valve featured on the new JNS Shark Cone skimmer is a novel development in the fine tuning of water level inside a protein skimmer. Although we just posted about the JNS Shark Cone protein skimmer, the very finely tuned Quick-Precise Adjustment valve (or QP valve as it is also called) is unique enough to merit it’s own post. With so many new skimmer designs packing a ton of water flow and air into ever smaller bodies, the majority of these designs are seriously lacking any capacity for fine tuning the water level inside the skimmer body. Case in point is the Alpha Kone skimmers; while they push a ton of air and flow into a small form factor, that puny little wedge pipe is woefully inadequate for adjusting the water level inside, prompting most owners to shell out an extra $30-50 for a real gate valve on the outflow. The Quick-Precise adjustment valve appears to be a custom-built, finely tuned gate valve especially for protein skimmer use and we hope that other manufacturers will take note and start shipping skoners with a much better handle on fine water level adjustment.
Quick-Precise Adjustment valve from JNS Aquaria is a quantum leap in skimmer water level control
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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