Saltcorner
By Bob Goemans
By Bob Goemans
Hi Bob,
I just finished reading your booklet "Protein Skimming & Activated Carbon Secrets". It was very informative and really helped me to understand both topics. I would like to take you up on your offer for advice on what brand and size of protein skimmer to purchase for a tank I am setting up.
My name is Nick Cavagnaro and I work as an exhibit designer and fabricator for the East Bay Regional Park District in Oakland, CA. The system I am setting up is a 700 gallon cold (61ยบ) marine tank with local fish from the San Francisco Bay and will be the center piece of our Crab Cove Visitor Center in Alameda. I have some experience with a Red Sea Berlin power skimmer which is part of a 200 gallon tank system, also cold marine. I have this skimmer located in the sump where it draws water that has been run through a prefilter and a large bio-ball trickle filter.
I am asking for your recommendations on a downdraft or high speed aeration skimmer that would be appropriate for this 700 gallon system.
Thanks
Nick
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your mail, and checkout my website at www.saltcorner.com.
As for a skimmer, there are three companies that come to mind that not only make fine equipment, but have models that will handle a 700 gallon system. They are: AquaC, Reef Concepts and A.E. Technology Inc. Both AquaC and Reef Concepts can be viewed and linked to by visiting my site. They are on the Advertiser Page. As for AE, they are the first to make the downdraft models, and their info is listed below.
A.E. Technology Inc., RR1 Box 127, Poughquag, NY 12570, fax (845) 227-2812, (845) 838-9044, superskim@aol.com
You could not go wrong with any of these three companies,
Cheers,
Bob
