Macro Aqua M-60 power filter skimmer follows in the footsteps of the Skilter

Macro Aqua has a new hang-on protein skimmer that borrows heavily from the Skilter design. The Macro Aqua M-60 combines the features of your traditional hang on filter with a protein skimmer. Those of you who remember the Skilter, can…

CPR Aeroforce AP air driven hang on protein skimmer

Air driven protein skimmers are making a come back, or at least we want them to because there’s hardly an easier or simpler way to mix air and water for the sake of cleaning marine aquarium water. The AeroForce AP…

Can you believe someone in the US is hand making wooden airstones?

When Calen Harmon of Gnome Glass told us he had sourced some high quality wooden airstones in a dizzying array of sizes at an affordable price, we were thrilled. When he told us they were handmade in the US we…

AeroForce AP from CPR Aquatic goes old school with wooden airstones

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQsYymURwlk[/youtube] The CPR Aquatic AeroForce AP is going old school replacing the aspirating pump from the previous AeroForce model with airstones to generate a respectable abundance of fine air bubbles.  CPR has always done the hang on back (HOB) skimmers…

Gnome Glass Skimmers and strainers launch at ReefStock

Although the $1 ghetto Mame skimmer might be easy and practical, it isn’t exactly is display worthy. Gnome Glass just released their glass skimmers here at Reefstock, solving just that. All skimmers are  hand-blown and work in a similar fashion…

$1 Mame Nano Skimmer clone is a ghetto-fabulous DIY deal

If you missed out on Black Friday deals yesterday or feel that there wasn’t really much for you, here’s a nice deal on a DIY nano protein skimmer you can build at home. This clone of the svelte and diminutive…

ATB Nano internal protein skimmer is an air-driven hottie

The ATB Nano is a protein skimmer that we’ve seen before – we saw it in the ATB Nano Hang-On skimmer and the ATB Mikro Nano cone skimmer – but now ATB has an eye-catching new fractionator in the ATB…

Redline Hot1v2 Hang-On Protein Skimmer from Precision Marine warms our air-driven hearts

The Redline Hot1v2 hang-on protein skimmer would be any other HOB device except for the simple fact that the fractionation is driven by pressurized air. With so many manufacturers and DIYers trying to find new and crazy ways to improve…

Mame Skimmer III: ultimate unboxing of a novel concept aquarium product

The Mame Nano Skimmer III is a very small, practical protein skimmer that is specially designed to skim the smallest nano tanks. The Mame Skimmer is also an expensive, nearly complete kit which offers up more in terms of the…

MAME nano glass protein skimmer III is big in Japan

What’s that? Your protein skimmer is still made from Acrylic aka dead dinosaurs? Tisk tisk. This beauty, aptly named the Mame skimmer â…¢ (mamesukima) which is produced by MAME Design isn’t just for your average tank. This hand-crafted ‘sukima’ is…