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Originally posted by luke33
Now why on earth would you think showing a skimmers size, air pull and gph would be a bad idea? Unless Deltec, BK, BM and all high end skimmer companies are marketing wrong by showing this? To me its one of the most important decisions in buying a skimmer. Why do you think your Das is so nice? Not because of its small reaction chamber but because of the 500lph air it'll pull at such a log gph and size of the neck. That would be another one....neck diameter. Its like looking at an aquaeuro and seeing the classic 400 at 10" in diameter.......but you don't know its only got a 3" neck. It only pulls around 18-20scfh. Now that's pretty wasteful imo. The das ex1 will pull nearly that and the das ex2 will pull almost twice at 6" in diameter. There are so many different variables out there when making a skimmer choice. The most important one's to me are.
Type of skimmer
Reaction chamber height and diameter
neck diameter
total height
air pull
pump brand
Price
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I think it a bad idea because it focuses just on one part too much. Now if you went into greater detail it would be okay.
Also i think it would be better off putting dwell time over air pull anyways....
Dwell time is really one of the most important factor in skimmer performance, IMO.