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View Poll Results: Do you use a protein skimmer? | |
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No.
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05-01-2008, 09:40 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
Posts: 7,114
     |  Do you use a protein skimmer?
Do you use a protein skimmer?
If so, what kind?
Last edited by Matt Rogers : 05-02-2008 at 12:52 AM.
Reason: removed word 'filter'
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05-01-2008, 10:02 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: London, UK
Posts: 69
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No skimmer for my 24g nano, i would perhaps consider it if i had a larger bioload, at the moment i still consider myself in the young tank stage (almost a year old) i only have a few peppermints an urchin and copious amounts of coraline algae and about a hundred million sponges lol.
Im thinking i might need one though if i get a Tubastrea.
Generally though i keep my water in good condition with weekly water changes (about 10%) and nice macro algae, but as i say my bioload is small. | |
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05-01-2008, 10:06 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
Posts: 3,959
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Do have a filter sock on skimmer outlet...  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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05-01-2008, 10:09 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: GA(stationed) From WPB, FLorida Age: 24
Posts: 174
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i have a seaclone 100 for my 90gal in my sump _________   It's Spilting time/Millertime!  [SIZE=4]MY TANK[/SIZE]- 90 Gal, Coralife 48" 2x150 Watt MH w/ Blue Moon Lights, Wet/Dry Sump and Protein Skimmer [SIZE=4]MY CORAL[/SIZE]- Blue Gorgonian, Blastamussa, Hydnaphora, Bubble, Colt, Open Brain, Mushrooms, Ricordea, 2xTorch, Red Gonipora, Star Polyops, Misc Zoas, Donut Coral and Candy Cane Coral | |
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05-01-2008, 10:16 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
Posts: 5,488
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Nope. Don't see why I would need to? | |
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05-01-2008, 10:32 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY ( derby town ) Age: 39
Posts: 465
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I run a Aqua C, EV 180 series.
I would think if the tank was small, you wouldint need to
1, water volume is low enough and real easy and inexpensive to change a few gallons out if even every other day.
2, And in a nano tank or small tank say up to 40 gallons
and a light bio load , then no i dont suppose ya'd need one .
Larger tanks yes, it's harder to get flow and and keep every thing clean
such as amonia/fish waste.
But i would suppose it would really depend on the load a person would have or plan to have on any given tank size .
always said we don't maintain tank or fish , we maintain "water quality" .
every thing depends on the water being as clean
an enviroment as possible.
and in a reef set up , it adds to the equation with all the other additives we have to supply. _________  220gal.(in wall) 75gal. sump 30gal. refugium 3x400 10K metal halides 2x160 72inch super blue actinics agua C skimmer 4x24 inch detronaitor tsumami waver maker x3 power heads ------------------------------ It's like art' some do it with paint and brush, We do it with salt and water
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05-01-2008, 10:34 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posts: 427
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run a prizm on my 120, a rio nano on my 5.5, and a aqua c remora on my 50
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120g, 3 niger triggers, 2 tomato's, 2 puffers, 2 anglers,
eel, lrg black lion
5g, 4 baby black ociis, haitian, rock and bubble tip anemone, frogspawn, hammers, candycanes, blue ricordia, zenia, leather, plate coral, peppermint shrimp, yellow jawfish, porcelain anemone crab, lrg ass. bristle worms | |
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05-01-2008, 10:37 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: WV Age: 33
Posts: 130
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Aqualine 250 on my 90g _________  90g plumbed to basement,75g sump with 10g refugium inside,250 Aqualine skimmer,QuietOne 6000 for return,HydorKoralia's #3 #4,2 kind zoanthus,3 kind mushrooms,pulsing xenia,yellow polyps,Sailfin Tang,coral beauty,sixline wrass,lawnmower blenny,Kole Tang,royal gramma,firefish,snails,hermits,crabs,serpent star,large feather duster | |
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05-01-2008, 11:01 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
Posts: 3,123
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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 ,
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05-01-2008, 11:11 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Grand Blanc,MI Age: 39
Posts: 76
Karma: 144
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Currently using a My Reef Creations MR-2 Beckett skimmer. My system has about 200 gallons total. This skiimer is running off of a Iwaki 70 pump that also provides return water to my display and deep sand bed tank. | |
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