Review on 🐠 Optimize Water Quality with Protein Skimmer Aquarium Filters: Enhance Fish Tank Filtration using the IQ5 Aquarium Filter Accessory by Holly Haman

This skimmer will take you hours to set up before you have an effective skimmer. The first bubbler failed two weeks after the first affective skimm. This was very frustrating as the new bubbler also took several hours to assemble and disassemble. Keep an eye on the air line connecting the bubbler to the bottom cap as mine almost melted but was easy enough to replace. The supplied air valve is finely adjustable. A hair setting is open and the skimmer bubbles, a hair setting is closed and the skimmer becomes a fancy aquarium bubbler that doesn't skim at all. Do not drop the drip tray as it is very fragile. I dropped mine off the countertop onto the floor and it's completely cracked on one side and halfway through the floor, but even with the crack it's not leaking or picking up debris. Hoping to fix this with acrylic cement for durability, fingers crossed. Also make sure that the device is not switched off for several hours. It will start bubbling immediately as soon as you turn the air pump back on, even if it was working fine before you turned the air pump off. I discovered this when trying to turn off the air pump for 6 hours while fueling my pico reef with biofuel. When the timer turned the air pump back on, the drip tray was completely full of water and bubbling. To avoid blistering, open an unused air valve to relieve pressure after the unit has been shut down for an extended period of time and close it slowly within 15 minutes of turning the unit back on. Trust me, once you've adjusted the hairline air valve, don't touch it. Therefore, do not purchase this device if you are scheduling the skimming process in your aquarium. To the manufacturer: It would be nice to have instructions about the pause time, the expected water level and the maximum bubble height that you should reach in the aquarium. a tube. Understanding this would make the learning curve much shorter and the module much more enjoyable. As a reference to others. I have found that when the main bubbles reach the top of the tube but no further, a nice head of foam forms at the top which collects on top of the bubbles and pushes a nice dry layer of foam into the collection tray. Breaking in and setting up the unit you find that with a good hairline adjustment in the air valve you can actually achieve wet vs dry collection. Overall not a bad device for the price. The mine has been running for 2 weeks and is now producing enough tinder to fill a third of the collection tank every 24 hours.