Bought a aqua c remora protein skimmer recently. Absolute and total junk. 230 bucks and the only thing is does is semi efficiently transfer water from my tank to the collection cup on the skimmer. I did some research online and decided maybe the mag 3 pump wasn't putting out enough water to really get some good fractionation. So i upgraded the pump to a mag 5. No change. Well not quite, now I get a skimmer cup full of almost crystal clear water even faster.
Aqua C Remora skimmers are Junk!
- Thread starter riverfishguy
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got to be something wrong with how you set it up or you must not have it tuned right, the aquaC remoras w/ the mag3 are supposed to be incredible.
Tuned? Have you tried one? There's not really anything to tune.
It's pulling out brown water (Not clear water...my husband overexaggerates just a bit...) , it's just not working as efficiently as it should for a skimmer of that price.
Honestly the adjustment on the cup sucks too. It's just a rubber gasket that you slide the cup up and down with to adjust the level of the skim. I like our Coralife better, it had a knob so you could adjust it close to perfect.
It's doing something, but it could do a lot better for the price. Maybe something is wrong with it but it's brand new. The pump that came with it didn't work right either, which is part of the reason it got switched out.
It's pulling out brown water (Not clear water...my husband overexaggerates just a bit...) , it's just not working as efficiently as it should for a skimmer of that price.
Honestly the adjustment on the cup sucks too. It's just a rubber gasket that you slide the cup up and down with to adjust the level of the skim. I like our Coralife better, it had a knob so you could adjust it close to perfect.
It's doing something, but it could do a lot better for the price. Maybe something is wrong with it but it's brand new. The pump that came with it didn't work right either, which is part of the reason it got switched out.
Is a pain to adjust the rubber gasket, but should work great when you get it set right. Where is the skimmer located? Sump, or on the back of the tank? Is it the remora or remora pro? The remora pro is designed for larger pumps. The mag5 is probably too much for the remora model.
Contact the company, they have great customer service.
Contact the company, they have great customer service.
i've never had one, however this is the ONLY complaint i've ever heard about the aquaC remora, everybody i've ever talked to that has had one loved it.
Well, I take what I said back, the skimmer now is not pulling anything out but water. It fills the cup within a few hrs with plain water and the gasket is adjusted as far down as it will go.
We sent a pic of the poor skim to the company a couple weeks ago and they said it looked like it was working just fine.
Well now I'm gonna send these people a picture of nothing but slightly cloudy water in the skimmer and ask them if that's "fine" too
Disappointed that we wasted this much money on this skimmer. Hopefully they'll take it back or give us our money back because it's obviously doing absolutely nothing.
It's a remora pro on back of tank. The company said there's nothing wrong with running this pump on there, in fact they said the bigger pump will increase efficiency. The smaller mag pump that came with it didn't work any better.
We sent a pic of the poor skim to the company a couple weeks ago and they said it looked like it was working just fine.
Well now I'm gonna send these people a picture of nothing but slightly cloudy water in the skimmer and ask them if that's "fine" too
Disappointed that we wasted this much money on this skimmer. Hopefully they'll take it back or give us our money back because it's obviously doing absolutely nothing.
It's a remora pro on back of tank. The company said there's nothing wrong with running this pump on there, in fact they said the bigger pump will increase efficiency. The smaller mag pump that came with it didn't work any better.
spotfin;1441934; said:
Last time we posted there was a 22inch moray, a juvenile grouper, an wolf eel blenny and a smaller puffer, plus a very large condy anemone and misc. inverts. It's a 90g.
Now it's got corals and a bunch of inverts, and just a few fish (molly, scooter blenny, and pinkspotted goby) because my husband decided to do a reef instead.
Still should not be filling with water within a few hrs, IMO.
We went to the movies yesterday and when we came back the cup was overflowing back into the skimmer. Like I said, it's set as high as it will go. If I try to move the gasket any further down it pops off.
Hmm. Doesn't sound right. I've got a Remora Pro with a Mag 3 pump, hanging on the back of my sump. Mine has a rubber o ring, set about 1" up from the bottom of the collection cup. Takes a couple of days to fill, and is not to dark. Then again, I only have a spotfin butterfly, royal gramma, and large hermit crab in a 75 gal tank. With a light bioload of fish your are likely to get lighter colored skimmate.
Can you post the picture of your skimmer here?
Can you post the picture of your skimmer here?
spotfin;1473599; said:
Yeah, I could see it not pulling much NOW with just the corals and inverts, but it still shouldn't be filling up with water quickly and overflowing.
With the large bioload before it shoulda been pulling a lot more. I know my coralife pulled more with even less bioload.
Give me a 2nd to find the cord to my camera and I can post pics of the skimmate anyway. I'll post some pics of the skimmer itself later (I may already have some on here though, not sure)