This is a well designed and high quality skimmer. Within hours of turning it on, it was pulling dark skimmate out of the water. The collection cup is large enough, and also has an outlet for an included drain line so it can flow into a larger container. Before placing it on my sump I modded the outflow pipe to output under the water to eliminate noise. It cost about $6 in PVC parts, but CoralVue sells a preassembled piece for $30.

I've only had the skimmer for a couple of days. However, I've owned several octopus skimmers and this one has the same quality built into it. BRS should should show pictures with the new pump it comes with, although they tell you in the descriptions. The skimmer head is a good fit but wiggles a bit. Overall it's a skimmer I'm happy to have.

Very impressed with this product! It arrived very fast!! I haven't set it up yet but by the looks of the impressive craftsmanship it will be the best skimmer I've purchased to date. I plan on buying another soon for another system. Thanks BRS!!

Good skimmer for the money. Small footprint, started skimming within 24 hours of putting it in my sump. Sounded like a waterfall, but quickly found different types of mods to quiet. Blows a lot of bubbles!

Overall: I would buy again.

Pros:
- Works great! Added this skimmer to a newly setup tank and was producing skimmate within a couple of hours.
- Easy to clean

Cons:
- NOISY. I really couldn't believe how loud this skimmer was due to splashing noises. I've added the DIY mod and can hardly hear it now but am still annoyed that the manufacturer hasn't fixed this design flaw.
- The water height is narrow and required a lot of manipulation to get setup correctly
- It isn't balanced (tips to one side) so was challenging to place on raised platform without falling over.

This things blows the function of a previous ebay skimmer (clone) that
I had out of the water. It produced skimmate in my nano tank within a few hours. I have not had a quality skimmer before and was impressed right away with the solidity of the unit. It is solid and not cheaply made.
I was not impressed that I had to mod the output of the water, not a big deal, went to hardware store and attached PVC to silence the outflow of water. I saw that the manufacturer sells them for like 30bucks, I spent about $4. I was also not packaged the proper length of pipe that attaches to the gate valve. I had to elevate the skimmer and play with the water level (along with my ATO) such that the output of water was not occluded and the collection cup did not overflow. I called BRS and they could not recommend anything for this. Not impressed with the amount of money I spent related to this or the DIY silencer I bout on day one for the gate valve output. The pump did not come with feet and a bottom either. I dont know if I got a repacked or poorly packaged product. The plug for the skimmate output through tubing does not fit properly either, I will not be using the tubing to drain skimmate related to this, not a biggie but once again not what expected for money spent.
Aside from these issues, the pump works well and as mentioned produces big time.
As mentioned, product is not flimsy, well made. comes with instructions that are fairly easy. I have not had a quality skimmer before so it took me a few minutes to figure out how to assemble even with the directions.
The unit includes a silencer for air hose, it works fairly well and was nice to have included.
Overall, despite little detractors, I would order again and would recommend to a friend as well.

I bought it for a custom built sump. It fit great thanks to the measurements on BRS Awesome Skimmer it was pulling nasty stuff out in no time. I did not like hearing the water splash out of the outlet due to the fact they recommend 5.5 to 5.75 inch deep sump . So I put a 90 on it pointed of to the side and its whisper quiet now.

Bought two coralife skimmers in the past year and they keep getting jammed. Poor quality and poor design. Then the lfs recommended reef octopus. I researched and decided to invest in this product. You can tell its high quality material right off the bat. It's been running for a week and I haven't regretted this thing for a second. The crap it pulls out is amazing! The bubble cloud it produces is by far the best I've ever seen. Highly recommend!!!

I have this on a 75g system and it works great. When you open the box you can feel and see the quality. The pump is also a high quality product. I would highly recommend this product on systems <100G.

got this for my 40 breeder its working great!!

This skimmer is an extremely good value and well built. Pulls some really good gunk out of my tank. Gate valve makes fine tuning very easy.

This skimmer works awesome. I am very happy with the performance and the value behind this product. I am currently using for my 65gal Column tank, and it removes alot of gunk from the water. It's amazing how much stuff it removes, and how you can barely see the gunk in the water.