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07-28-2006, 12:39 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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I Broke Down and did it
After being fustrated with my sealife systems skimmer I ordered a MR2 gen X - 40 Skimmer. I must be going crazy the skimmer was more that my light system.
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07-28-2006, 12:43 PM
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Lost Fish
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Avon, Ohio
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As long as it works and last for a long time, I wouldn't worry about the price too much.
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07-28-2006, 12:52 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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Sweet!! You will love this skimmer, I know I love mine! You will be shocked about all the junk in your system once you get that puppy broken in.
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07-28-2006, 12:55 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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i am hoping it will help with some of the algae
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07-28-2006, 01:30 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
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It will sure help!
Whiskey
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07-28-2006, 03:07 PM
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Tang Lover
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rockville, MD
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I know you're leary now...but it arrives, you'd SOOO gonna think it was worth it.
Congrats on a GREAT purchase!!
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07-28-2006, 03:15 PM
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Milkshake Man
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SW Florida
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Congrats on the new skimmer!!!!
Tim
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07-28-2006, 03:15 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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A super product, make sure to clean the skimmer out the first few weeks at least once a week to get all the crap out of the foam column to keep your efficiency up. If your rate of skimming seems to drop off, always clean out the skimmer and the venturi dev9ce, looking for things like small snails, granules of misc garbage, etc that may lodge in the venturi. You will be surprised at the stuff that will come out of what looks like clean water... 
Congrats on the purchace, you might find that if you're doing a large system, that the MR2 will need an even bigger pump (the HP pumps like the pcx-55 is a good choice) to do really large volumes.
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07-28-2006, 03:22 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
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Take TDWyatt's post and replace "venturi" with "Beckett". Small snails can get stuck in that thing, same with stryofoam, and wood chips.
Whiskey
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07-28-2006, 03:24 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
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ok UM... what's a beckett?
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07-28-2006, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiskey
Take TDWyatt's post and replace "venturi" with "Beckett". Small snails can get stuck in that thing, same with stryofoam, and wood chips.
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yup!
I like all of mine, I have switched from about half a dozen other methods or brands of skimmers to the point where i am running various MR skimmers on all the systems now.
Wiskey is right on inserting the word "Beckett," it is a brand of venturi injection device that is probably the most efficient in injecting the air into the water stream as it rushes around a small ball with fins mounted directly in the water column in an air-controlled chamber as it enters the skimmer. By controlling the amount of air that can enter the beckett chamber, you will be able to control the amount of foam and the wetness of the skimmate. Many posts here at TRT on breaking in the skimmer and the initial adjustments needed to start using the device.
Enjoy your skimmer!
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07-28-2006, 03:32 PM
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NFMAS
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Saint Augustine
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its another method of air injection. I did the beckett mod to my sealife skimmer and went back to venturi. I am not happy with my sealife skimmer either.
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07-28-2006, 03:34 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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is the beckett some thing that I get from MRC or is it a mod. I do myself?
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07-28-2006, 03:39 PM
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NFMAS
Join Date: Apr 2006
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I think MRC skimmers use the beckett. Its called a mod when you change a skimmers design to use the beckett injector
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07-28-2006, 03:45 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Lantana Florida
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Ok i just fired them off an e-mail to change it if it didnot come standard
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