Skimmer - which one ?

Pszemol wrote:

AquaC-EV120:
http://www.fishtanksdirect.com/index...PROD&ProdID=22

Get this one. It's a spray injection system, which is basically a
downdraft design. *Much* better than venturi or needle wheel desgin.
Work by shooting a high pressure stream of water into the surface of the
water in the reaction chamber. Same principal one uses when one takes a
bubble bath.

These are the best.

Really really. Seriously. I once read an article where someone tested a
downdraft (I think it was an ETS 1000 - no you don't want one of those -
MUCH bigger skimmer than you want!) against a large very expensive top
of the line venturi by running both on the same tank at the same time.
The downdraft did such a good job at pulling crap out of the water, and
it it so much more quickly than the downdraft, that the downdraft was
pretty much producing zilch in the way of foam, after both had been
running for a month.