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Old 03-14-2008, 09:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Skimmer killing my fish

So I thought it was a one time thing a month ago when my fish got sucked into my skimmer. However about fifteen min ago my skimmer claimed my second fish. Guess I will have to stick with bigger fish.


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Old 03-14-2008, 09:22 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Crapola...Skimmers are not supposed to "eat" fish...you must have a HOB.

Get some kind of protection on intake port. Some very porus filter material should not impede water flow much.

Yep, you need to stay away from small, weak swimming fish...


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Old 03-14-2008, 11:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I lost two Spanish dancer and a hippo tang to make realize that I will need to get something that would cost like 5 to fix instead of losing hundred


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