What the air driven Mame Nano Skimmer has taught me about protein skimming

Like many of you, when I first laid eyes on the Mame Nano Skimmer my thought was that it was a beautiful piece of kit, but hardly worth the cost relative to it’s performance. nevertheless, I went ahead and gave…

House of Fins 53rd Anniversary SPLASH event this weekend

House of Fins in Greenwich CT is one of the oldest aquarium stores in the country and this weekend will mark the establishment’s 53rd year in the business of ornamental aquarium fish. House of Fins, or HOF, has been ramping…

Hydor Slim Skim Prototype falls into the right hands

The Hydor Slim Skim internal protein skimmer is a highly anticipated reef aquarium filter product which we can’t wait to see become available. The Slim Skim was first showed off in the U.S. at the MAX show back in April…

Powercone skimmer from ATI shown off on Video

[youtube width=”640″ height=”344″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIzfWOr_ww[/youtube] While ATI Power Cone skimmers have landed in the United States, ATI has gone ahead and released a video showing the skimmer in action. The Power Cone 200 is shown here in what seems like some sort…

Skimz KONE SK181 the newest E-Series internal protein skimmer from Singapore

The Skimz KONE SK181 is the first protein skimmer in the company’s E-Series line of internal products. Earlier this month we brought you the external line of E-Series skimmers from this Singapore-based company and for those of you looking for…

Trigger Systems Bursa skimmer caught on film

[youtube width=”640″ height=”505″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxXPu-56P-g[/youtube] We all know you skimmer-heads love seeing skimmate videos so we decided to share this short video of new Trigger Systems Bursa protein skimmer in action. Just what we love to see — plenty of bubbles making the…

SWC 160 cone skimmer still rockin after 6 months of solid performance

When a protein skimmer like the SWC 160 cone comes along with over 20″ of conical reaction height, a decent pump and a price that seems way to good to be true, we gotta admit we tried out the SWC…

Hands on and review of the AquaMax hang on back skimmer

The AquaMaxx hang on Back Series protein skimmer is a finely crafted acrylic box that is perfect for your nano aquarium. That is my opinion after I’ve had this running on my quaint 20 gallon aquarium. With so many nano…

AquaDriver releases two new Skim Clean sizes

Aqua Driver has just released two new sizes in their automatic line of Skim Clean. The smallest size is 50-90 mm which means that it was designed for very small protein skimmers and might be a good fit for a…

Taking the Swabbie for a spin on an Alpha Kone 300

When Avast Marine asked us to review their new and affordable Swabbie automatic neck cleaner for protein skimmers, we thought we’d give them a little bit a challenge. Instead of sending us a po-dunk little skimmer neck cleaner we tasked…