Reef Oct 202-S or Aquamaxx CO-2

[mattruggiero]

I'm debating between the two. I've heard great thing about the Aquamaxx and want to lean that way... but saving $50 and being able to put it elsewhere makes the Reef Octopus 202-S tempting.

Does anyone have experience with those two?

[Drae]

Aquamaxx over anything reef octopus makes imo. Reason 1. The pumps on reef octopus are Chinese made. Aquamaxx comes with Italian made sicce shark pumps. Reason 2 is balance of the actual skimmers seems to be better from aquamaxx. I've seen some pretty decent reef octopus skimmers and actually ran a couple older reef octopus units with good results but every aquamaxx I've owned out performed my 2 reef ocs I had. No comparison imo. Again though that's jmo

[mattruggiero]

Originally Posted by Drae

Aquamaxx over anything reef octopus makes imo. Reason 1. The pumps on reef octopus are Chinese made. Aquamaxx comes with Italian made sicce shark pumps. Reason 2 is balance of the actual skimmers seems to be better from aquamaxx. I've seen some pretty decent reef octopus skimmers and actually ran a couple older reef octopus units with good results but every aquamaxx I've owned out performed my 2 reef ocs I had. No comparison imo. Again though that's jmo

Cool. I appreciate your opinion and from what I've read a lot of people think the same about the two brands. Well I'm sold on the Aquamaxx. Thanks for your input!