Do you use a protein skimmer?

[ardo_ski]

Originally Posted by Tangster

We run a Bullet 3 and until the change I always ran ETSS skimmer's on larger tanks I never saw or heard of a need for skimmer filter ? Do you mean filter the water before the skimmer or let the outlet water run through Carbon and filter padding as we do to filter and remove any residual Ozone

Seems 54% of the people here have found the need ? I must be missing somthing here ,

Hmmm.... Guess I read it worng also I thought it was skimmer, but now read it again I have the question?

[wildreef]

Originally Posted by Tangster

We run a Bullet 3 and until the change I always ran ETSS skimmer's on larger tanks I never saw or heard of a need for skimmer filter ? Do you mean filter the water before the skimmer or let the outlet water run through Carbon and filter padding as we do to filter and remove any residual Ozone

Seems 54% of the people here have found the need ? I must be missing somthing here ,

Well i run the my Aqua C ev 180 then it dumps into a micron bag and thats where i have my carbon bout 1 pound.
then tank drain it's self dumps into another large micron filter bag.

I dont' know whether ive got the low down on skimming/filtering here but
i can photo my LR and tank walls and the rock is the deepest purple ive seen thus far and completly covred now.
And the only algea problems i might have is a bit of brown diatome that i easaly brush off bout once week ( very little )
I need to change my bulbs out , the spectrum has changed on the bulbs
( waitng on ups )

[R34dawn]

I have a nano skimmer 6" X 2" dia on my 55g system, I supposed that removes enough
and a air line in to a 1gal jug so I don't have to be slaving empty in it!

[mattgeezer]

I have a aquamedic turbo 2 or something like that anyway, i cant remember

[matt s]

I think people are interpreting this question differently, thus the nearly 50/50 results.

It appears some are reading it as "do you use a protein skimmer" as some sort of filter, while others are reading "do you use a filter on your skimmer?"

[Matt Rogers]

Huh. Didn't think of that. Can someone verify that is what they did?

[Godbert]

redsea prizm baby... its a piece

[ardo_ski]

Originally Posted by Matt Rogers

Huh. Didn't think of that. Can someone verify that is what they did?

I read it as do you use a Skimmer and that's how I answered.

[Tangster]

Originally Posted by Matt Rogers

Do you use a protein skimmer filter?

If so, what kind?

I read it as do you use a protein skimmer filter ! Now as dumb as this may sound I have been seeing and hearing of people who are now actually using a prefilter like foam on their skimmer pump intakes... And they so so pre filter the skimmer water then have that passing through a floss and carbon then running that over into and feeding their refugiums . But if I read it wrong and caused any confusion Its Matt's fault (: With his trick questions

I use a protein skimmer But its now used a standalone filtering method .
I don't filter the inlet water I do run the outlet water over and through a filter pad and carbon this is only to off gas any residual Ozone out of the skimmer

[Bogie]

I ran a filter on my skimmer outlet in place of the bubble diffuser basket, but only until the skimmer was broken in enough to not make so much microbubbles.