Aqua Medic T-5000 Baby

[Steven Pro]

Anyone use one of these? I am looking for opinions. They look like nice skimmers at a very attractive price, but I have yet to see one in action.

 

[shallowreef]

That makes two of us. I know aquamedic makes good products so i can't imagine the skimmer being bad. Maybe pricey but thats about it.

 

[Steven Pro]

Anybody use the T-5000 Single or Twin?

 

[shallowreef]

Have you tried typing that in on yahoo and seeing what results you get? You may be able to find a review or something.

 

[Scooterman]

I have seen one at my LFS in a huge rock tub, it worked really well for a shorty.

 

[Steven Pro]

Have you tried typing that in on yahoo and seeing what results you get? You may be able to find a review or something.

It is weird. It seems very few American aquarists uses these skimmers. I have talked to a few South African guys, but theirs were older with Eheim pumps and one gentleman from Singapore with Shorty's, Baby's, Single's, and Twin's. He seemed to love them.

 

[bradreef]

they just really aren't very current or one of the new trends. it is not the cool new brand name so you dont see a lot of hype in the states.

 

[Skimmy]

i was unimpressed with the t-5000 i saw in operation...they seemed sluggish to me.....too many other better options for the same money

 

[Steven Pro]

Could you elaborate a bit? What do you mean by "sluggish"? And, which model T-5000 did you see: the Shorty, Baby, Single, or Twin?

 

[bradreef]

i was unimpressed with the t-5000 i saw in operation...they seemed sluggish to me.....too many other better options for the same money

doesn't the tacoma store have one of these?

 

[Skimmy]

thats the one brad....and after talking to the workers they comfirmed my suspicions....
it's the tall twin one...with 2 or 3700's.
granted, mabye the thing just needed to be cleaned or something...

i would think that with 13 lph of air that the or3700 would probably perform o.k. on the shorty model.
the twin wasnt very impressive...it's performance looked like a overgrown berlin skimmer with an attitude...lol

 

[bradreef]

I was really thinking for the size the bubble density wasn't the greatest. But seeing Mojoreefs and jnarowes air compressed ones is kind of misleading because they are crazy.

 

[fancyfish]

I use the aquamedic turboflotor shorty on my 180 and think it is great. I have this photo from when it was first set up...maybe one to two weeks. I would recommend these skimmers. I assume that other models work well.