Custom Bashsea Twister Skimmer is one souped up foam fractitioner

There is something about the way Bashsea approaches equipment and its not subtlety. Case in point, this customer Bashsea Twister Skimmer designed for Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, that just looks like one powerful foam-fractitioning beast.  The photos make it look…

Bashsea Twisted skimmer is a unique spin on the Beckett skimmer

Bashsea is one of those companies that is proving the devil’s in the details. The US company has developed a unique line of filtration products that include the Bashsea Twisted protein skimmer. The Bashsea Twisted design takes your Beckett injection…

MyReef Creation MR2R recirculating beckett skimmer

The MyReef Creation MR2R is a brand new protein skimmer from the American heavy-duty acrylic-smithing specialists. The recirculating design of the MR2R uses a medium sized Reeflo Blowhole water pump to drive two Beckett injectors into a tight footprint. MRC developed the…

Mini micro Bullet 0.5 from Precision Marine runs on concentrated beckett injection technology

The Mini Micro Bullet 0.5 is the newest model of the long lived line of Bullet skimmers from Precision Marine, and the first new model of beckett style of downdraft skimmer that we’ve seen in a long while. Needle wheel…

Downdraft protein skimmer prototype uses modular neck modules

Cone skimmers, meshwheels and bubble plates are what we tend to compare in most skimmers nowadays but we often forget just how well some previous technologies worked. This strange looking prototype protein skimmer looks to be a downdraft or Beckett design that…

Fine-crafted Shoei skimmers show that small Beckett skimmers are still popular in Japan

Downdraft and Beckett skimmers are still extreme foam fractioning workhorses despite the current trends toward cone and needle wheel designs hitting the market and our reefkeeping brothers and sisters in Japan are proving these smaller, finely-crafted skimmers are alive and…