dgasmd
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I recently becamse very interested in a Deltec skimmer because of their good reputation among people that use them. So, I got curious and started to do some research. I asked a few european reefers abou it and what else is considered the elite skimmer in europe since they seem o be ahead of us in some equipment. Please, don't get all bent out of shape over this.
Turns out Deltec is not even considered elite there. Seems like Grotech, H&S, and Schurams are the best there is and they are actually half to 1/3 the cost to a comparable Deltec unit. So, I went ot all their sites and looked at them to see what was obviously so different that would make these things so powerfull. Well, some have some patented needle wheel to chop the air, some have some silencer to make then quieter, and some said nothing i the sites I saw. To the untrained eye, they all look like different euroreef versions regardless of who copy what.
The one thing that seems common to all of them is that they all use recirculating pumps, the pumps are small pumps like the eheim, their diameter seem to be bigger for comparable skimmers, and they are all very energy efficient. Even the larger model of any of them doesn't consume 1/2 what my iwaki 100 consumes in electricity. Not a single skimmer is powered by large pumps like the becketts here. I don't know if that is due to lack of availability of those pumps (I will venture to say I highly doubt it) or just trying to avoid big electricity consuming equipment.
So, does anyone have any insights as to what makes these skimmers so good? Please, don't just say "they are better". Give me the why I like to say I am from MO (I couldn't be fro a further place in reality), so "show me".
Turns out Deltec is not even considered elite there. Seems like Grotech, H&S, and Schurams are the best there is and they are actually half to 1/3 the cost to a comparable Deltec unit. So, I went ot all their sites and looked at them to see what was obviously so different that would make these things so powerfull. Well, some have some patented needle wheel to chop the air, some have some silencer to make then quieter, and some said nothing i the sites I saw. To the untrained eye, they all look like different euroreef versions regardless of who copy what.
The one thing that seems common to all of them is that they all use recirculating pumps, the pumps are small pumps like the eheim, their diameter seem to be bigger for comparable skimmers, and they are all very energy efficient. Even the larger model of any of them doesn't consume 1/2 what my iwaki 100 consumes in electricity. Not a single skimmer is powered by large pumps like the becketts here. I don't know if that is due to lack of availability of those pumps (I will venture to say I highly doubt it) or just trying to avoid big electricity consuming equipment.
So, does anyone have any insights as to what makes these skimmers so good? Please, don't just say "they are better". Give me the why I like to say I am from MO (I couldn't be fro a further place in reality), so "show me".