whats a good protein skimmer and ro unit

[corals123]

i'm curious, ive read about the coral life super skimmer needle wheel protein skimmer and also some good modifications you can do to it. i have a 40 gal and don't want to blow my softies out of the water so i'm worried about the flow rate. also i need an ro unit. does anyone know some good and relatively cheap ideas for my situation?

[Neptune420]

The corallife skimmers are pretty good assuming your water level never changes. I had to move mine to the display tank cause I dont have a top off on my sump. As far as a good cheap ro/di unit check out purewaterclub.com they are the cheapest I have found and I have had mine for a couple of years now and it works great. Plus their replacement filters are relatively cheap.

[Rwinfrey]

I like my aqua fx ro unit. are you runnig a sump or do you want a hang on

[xraydoc]

The filter guys have very nice and affordable RO/DI units as well as outstanding customer service. Spectrapure units are also very good IMO (also more expensive.)

[Rick55555]

I like AquaC skimmers. I've used the Remora with success on tanks under 75 gallons.

I'm satisfied with my spectrapure RO unit.

[kdblove_99]

I hate the Remora worst skimmer i ever owned.

Do you need in sump or Hook on back skimmer?

[angel2007]

Originally posted by corals123
i'm curious, ive read about the coral life super skimmer needle wheel protein skimmer and also some good modifications you can do to it. i have a 40 gal and don't want to blow my softies out of the water so i'm worried about the flow rate. also i need an ro unit. does anyone know some good and relatively cheap ideas for my situation?

I have a coralife skimmer running on my 54gal, and I have done about every mod I could find. Still to this day it does not work the way I think it should, I even have gone to the stock set up and still no improvement. Im saving my money to get me a recirculating Protein Skimmer. So save your money....

[Rwinfrey]

put a sedra pump on it it will work

[dsn112]

My aqua C remora pulls a ton of dark green smelly goo. Some people hate them, I don't see how, only thing I can think of is that there are some bad units out there, but Aqua C will replace it if thats the case. Also I think the maxijet 1200 could be alittle underpowered for it.

Coral Life products are ok, I have never heard anything that good about them. I think that the tunze 9002 would be better than the corallife.