Hands on with the world’s first oval cone protein skimmer from Skimz

Skimz has a knack for going out of its way to differentiate their products with this year’s hook being a cone protein skimmer with an oval footprint. The idea of making a oval base protein skimmer screams “gimmick” from a…

Oval Cone Biopellet Reactor from Skimz is the logical progression of shapes

What do you do if you’ve got some oval base cones of acrylic lying around from your protein skimmer build? Well if you are Skimz of Singapore of course the obvious route is to build a conical biopellet reactor with…

AquaMaxx adds JNS ConeS Protein Skimmer to product line

For those of you having trouble finding the JNS ConeS protein skimmers there is good news as AquaMaxx is now carrying the JNS ConeS in-sump protein skimmers under its label here in the US. We were intrigued with the new technology…

New Avast Marine CS3 Cone Skimmer Kit made for your larger tank

The new Avast Marine CS3 Cone Skimmer Kit is an ideal way to get a stellar protein skimmer at a great price while satisfying your appetite for DIY. The CS3 cone skimmer is probably one of Avast Marine’s best ‘YouBuilt’ line…

CAD Lights BR-2 biopellet reactor is made of a huge upside-down cone

CAD Lights made quite the impression with the release of the BR-1 conic bioreactor and they’re at it again with a jumbo biopellet mixer with the BR-2 reactor. Latching on to the cone skimmer trend and putting it literally on…

Eshopps debuts the S300 Cone Skimmer

The Eshopps S300 is a larger new protein skimmer with a beefy spec sheet. Eshopps is growing their Cone skimmer family with a larger model, and including some new features. The new S300 protein skimmer is powered with a Sicce…

Short clip shows the super calm skimming of the JNS ConeS

IF lack of turbulence is the name of the game for efficient protein skimming, once enough air has been injected of course, then the JNS ConeS might be on to something with its inception-like cone within a cone. We were…

JNS ConeS series protein skimmers looks ready to blast off

The JNS ConeS protein skimmers are an interesting take on the long road to make our skimmers less and less turbulent. By now you should have already noticed that the JNS ConeS skimmers has the namesake of having multiple cones…

Vertex Omega Cone skimmer leads the pack for AC powered internal designs

Although the first introduction to the Vertex Omega Cone skimmer was a recirculating model with a huge recirculating pump, what Vertex has settled on with the simply internal Omega skimmer is perhaps one of the best new reef toys of…

Vertex Omega 150 internal ‘wine glass’ cone skimmer comes to U.S.

The Vertex Omega 150 internal cone skimmer is the newest vertex skimmer to enter US the market. We covered the big brother of the Omega 150 more than two years ago at Interzoo, which is an external model and featured a…