I ordered a new light and an Odyssea PS 75 Protein Skimmer last week.
The light will be here tomorrow so I will review that when it gets here, but I have been running the Protein skimmer for a couple days. First day I assembled it and let it run, it work ok for what it is. I got a little, 1/8 cup light green skim in a day. Looking at it for the last 2 days, the main problem I saw was that the outlet on the power side was slamming the mix and making a random flow; well large bubbles were rising through the middle and disturbing the foam. Well I was looking at it and started looking through the junk I have in my fish stuff in the garage trying to figure out how to get a vortex.
Tried a dozen different things and the one I came up with is sliding a piece of clear 1/2 into the power side outlet, all the way across the canister with a notch in the opposite side, well this slows down the flow good on this model, and kicks the water around the canister making a vortex.
It works much better I have already pulled as much skin in 2 hours as in the previous 24 hours, and it is a darker green. The bubbles making it to the top are much smaller and more consistent.
Out of the box it is fine for what it is, it is rated for a 75galon tank, I would not use it on anything larger than a 40gallon, but I am very happy with it now that it is modified, and I did not need to do anything permanent, so I can change back with about 30seconds of work.
So far I am very happy you get what you pay for and at $29.99 you are not paying much but for my little 22g tank it are more than enough.
The light will be here tomorrow so I will review that when it gets here, but I have been running the Protein skimmer for a couple days. First day I assembled it and let it run, it work ok for what it is. I got a little, 1/8 cup light green skim in a day. Looking at it for the last 2 days, the main problem I saw was that the outlet on the power side was slamming the mix and making a random flow; well large bubbles were rising through the middle and disturbing the foam. Well I was looking at it and started looking through the junk I have in my fish stuff in the garage trying to figure out how to get a vortex.
Tried a dozen different things and the one I came up with is sliding a piece of clear 1/2 into the power side outlet, all the way across the canister with a notch in the opposite side, well this slows down the flow good on this model, and kicks the water around the canister making a vortex.
It works much better I have already pulled as much skin in 2 hours as in the previous 24 hours, and it is a darker green. The bubbles making it to the top are much smaller and more consistent.
Out of the box it is fine for what it is, it is rated for a 75galon tank, I would not use it on anything larger than a 40gallon, but I am very happy with it now that it is modified, and I did not need to do anything permanent, so I can change back with about 30seconds of work.
So far I am very happy you get what you pay for and at $29.99 you are not paying much but for my little 22g tank it are more than enough.