who uses....this is like a poll wanna hear from u

I use a skimmer, however I don't use it all the time. When dosing or feeding, the skimmer will shut off for a few hours then go on again as I have it on a timer. Also with the large clams that I have in my tank I want to have some phosphates and nitrates in my water for nutritional supplementation for my Clams(Tridacna Squamosa, Tridacna Crocea).
I use to use a Fluval 304 as added water movement and as a reservoir to house Carbon or any other media I wanted to. So it was a pretty versatile piece of equipment at the time. However, after having to clean the cannister filter and having excess phosphates and nitrates, I eliminated it.
I did purchase a phosphate reactor though which I use from time to time to run carbon and phosphate remover but it isn't as bulky and as difficult or time consuming to clean.

 

I do not recommend a mandarin for your tank. The only people that I know that have had long term success with this fish are people who run a refugium. It's very rare that you can get these fish to eat frozen mysis shrimp and they will quickly wipe out the pod population in your tank and subsequently starve to death.

 

I use a skimmer and a fuge and have had large accidents from HOB accessories, personaly I will never use any thing that is HOB ever again

 

What Kind Of Accidents Have You Encountered?

 

just a skimmer here as well

 

I hate anything that is considered HOB it will either leak or overflow at some point.. It's the Law anything that was dsigned to hold or contain water will leak ..at some point.

 

I have both. An AquaC Remora and a Penguin 200 with the biowheel removed. Both HOB.

I think I'm too scared to run just the protein skimmer especially since I have to clean/replace the Penguin filter every week. All that gook/stuff that the Penguin filter traps makes me a little nervous about taking it out. I would love to have less equipment, but not sure if my Remora would clean the tank enough since my goby seems to stir up the sand and debris quite a bit. :-/

 

I use none. just a waste of electricty. once your tank is cycled, it pretty much is an established enviroment. i do have a little more algea then most. nothing a little tlc on the weekends wont take care of.

 

I only have a Skimmer.

J

 

Skimmer Only also.