Compact 6 Protein Skimmer from Grey Seas Aquatics balances performance and value

The Compact 6 protein skimmer from Grey Seas Aquatics is a surprising balancing act of quality and value, performance and ease of servcing. The Compact 6 protein skimmer does all this while still delivering an American made product with an…

Aztech Pyramid Protein Skimmer from CPR aquatics, action video

The Aztech Pyramid protein skimmer from CPR Aquatic has not yet been released since it’s unveiling at IMAC West but here we have a video of one of the first Alpha-level units running on some relatively clean sea water. This…

Aztech Pyramid protein skimmer from CPR

The Aztech pyramid skimmer from CPR is a novel departure from the typical cone protein skimmer. The Aztech uses a pyramidal shape to increase the volume of air and water mixing and coupled with a quality needle wheel water pump,…

ATB 840 Cone Skimmer gets nice n’ fancy

ATB has started to get fancy with design and comestic changes to their new Econo 840 cone skimmer. This new design seen pictures includes a seamless molded cone body, polished CNC work, skimmate drain valve, and removable base. With the…

Hands-on with the Warner Marine K2 Cone Skimmer, formerly the K1

Since Warner Marine’s first cone protein skimmer was announced last fall, a lot of changes have happened to the American made skoner besides the name. For starters, the Warner Marine cone protein skimmer was first launched as the K1 but…

ATB’s new Mini Airstar with Large pinwheel+mesh seen

ATB had been rumored to be testing a new Mini Airstar pump that would be paired with smaller skimmers with the ATB name on them. André snapped these pictures of what appears is a New Jet 3000 with the large…

Warner Marine testing Unidirectional needlewheel

Not content with the backwards start issues that plague the Sicce PSK-2500 design, Warner Marine has started to test a new pinwheel design that they hope will eliminate the issue. The initial design is based on the factory Sicce impeller…

Warner Marine K2 cone skimmer close to production

You would think that after teasing us countless times, Warner Marine would have their K2 protein skimmer out on the market. Alas our dreams haven’t come true yet due to “machinist” issue but we did get another round of teasing…

ATB Economical skimmers heading towards US, UK not so lucky

We’ve been hearing and reporting about ATB’s economical line of skimmers that they have been working on for some time now. Finally after several months of waiting they have arrived shipped over here to the United States. We are still…

Warner Marine K1 skimmer releasing in Q1 09

We have confirmation that Warner Marine’s newest warp drive protein skimmer, the K1 will be releasing either in Late February, or early March of  2009. Also to it is expected to come in as a  8″ mini cone skimmer with…