Anyone receive their Xtreme skimmer?

[MrSquid]

Originally posted by greenhut
Can someone that has received their skimmer comment on overall build quality? Can you compare to other well know skimmers?

The last skimmer I used was a 6' high custom built unit at the LFS I worked at 10 years ago. A lot has changed since then and I have nothing modern-day to compare it to. But the build quality (to me) seems pretty solid. I was a bit concerned with how tight the collection cup would be, but it is REALLY tight!

One very minor thing to me is that the air line (more like a really thin rubber tube - almost like a REALLY thick latex) for the venturi kinks really easily. It had a few extra inches and that made it kink all on it's own. I trimmed the length down to fit and now it's fine. But I'm going to be running ozone through mine so I'll probably end up replacing it with an ozone-safe line anyways.

For the money so far it LOOKS like it'll be a nice unit. I hope that's still the case once I get it dirty.