Red Sea Prizm Deluxe Hang On Skimmer

It is difficult to adjust the Prizm properly. I spent three weeks bouncing between three conditions. 1) Filling with water, 2) Not collecting anything and 3) Properly collecting skimmate.

I finally gave up and purchased an Aqua-C Remora Pro. The Remora worked perfectly right out of the box! The Remora doesn't need adjustments, which is a good thing, there is nothing to adjust.

I used this skimmer for about 10 months. It was horrible. The plastic is too dark to properly set the microbubble level. Many, many times I thought I had it set correctly, only to find it had overflowed a 1/2 hour later. It NEVER collected much, even when I was lucky enough to have set it correctly. Towards the end, it kept losing siphon, so it would run maybe 3 hours before it stopped pulling in any water to skim. I switched to a Coralife skimmer, and in 2 days, I swear I had collected more skimmate than in the previous 10 months combined. It was a huge waste of money.

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I bought a used Prizm skimmer from a fellow member of my Reef Club. I installed it on a 10 Gallon nano reef that I set up. I had problems adjusting the flow (either too much and pumping microbubbles into tank, lucky break: it skims great for awhile or no suction for any apparent reason). This skimmer was used and had been broken and repaired. I decided that maybe the previous damage was the source of my problem. So I ordered a new one.

I installed the new skimmer on my 30-Gallon reef. At first it worked ok. It never produced much skimmate. Yet I had enough dissolved organics in the tank to support a healthy hair algae outbreak. Three months later and I'm again fighting loss of suction, overflowing collection cup and/or tons of microbubbles discharged into the tank.

I took the skimmer apart, replaced all O-rings and tubing. Skimmer worked so-so for another 2-3 months and then problems started again. Neither new or used skimmer ever worked very well. If it couldn't keep up on a 30-Gallon, there's no way it can keep up on the capacity rating of 100-Gallons.

For @$125 new, I would say I didn't even got what I paid for. Save the money, do more research and buy a real skimmer.

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bought this thing...HOPING i could get it to work despite all the negative things ive read about it.

so far its

-over skimmed and wasted alot of water.

-stoppped skimming overbight

-flooded my living room twice

-filled the tank with bubbles

ITS LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING PUT TOGHEDER

IT DOESNT WORK UNLESS YOU CONSTANTLY ADJUST IT

MANUAL DESPITE ITS LACK OF DETAIL EXPLAINS HOW

TO WORK IT BUT the unit itself is poorly designed.

dont make the mistake i made...buy a skimmer with a 5 star review

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After having so many used tanks I decided with my tax return, I would buy EVERYTHING new. I wouldn't have someone elses used choices, I would make a system that was uniquely MINE.

I chose all my parts carefully based on features I wanted for my own tank and disregarded reviews. OOPS!

I chose this skimmer. And I have regretted it. ever. since. It had NO instructions for how to get it to start sucking up the water so it took forever to figure it out (you have to put the little black tube on one opening until it starts sucking then quickly switch it to the other opening to create bubbles....). the 'deluxe' surface skimmer clip broke in less than a week, it's a joke. I've had it 9 months and it's been off for 3 at least, I just removed it from the tank the other day. Everytime I would plug it in it would skim for a few hours and then I would come in and it would be running dry and not be sucking water anymore. it constantly fills my 40 gallon with tiny bubbles. the carbon media container got stuck and refused to come out when I wanted to change it so I didn't get it out until I pried it out after taking the skimmer off my tank. this skimmer STINKS! It NEVER skimmer well, needed constant adjusting, because an adjustment that works one day suddenly wont be working the next... just AWFUL! Lee's counter current $20 skimmer works better than this! Oh, and it's loud!

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