As a general rule, you will have to deal with more water changes without a skimmer, but it is certainly doable. Find More Posts by lordofthereef. I am in a very similar situation. Tank was put together with liverock from existing well established tanks.
Cycle was relatively quick. Corals and fish transferred and all doing extremely well. I am running some Purigen in the sump, as well as carbon, and phosphate remover when needed. The skimmer I intended to buy has been out of stock, so I am running without one. Everything is going so well, I now wonder whether to just leave it as it is. You can make it without a skimmer, but I think most systems benifit from one. It really does depend on your plans for the tank.
Current Tank Info: multitank system is now running! Several hundred gallons of additions planned! Sure you can run a tank without a skimmer. I even ran a tank without water changes. If you want your tank to really flourish though I would recommend a skimmer and water changes I think have the extra piece of equipment really cuts back on the man hours of having to spend to keep your tank top notch.
I'd say get it as soon as you can. I'm glad to see that stuff come out of my tank! I have three kids and alot of animals so any thing to cut down som maint would be great. I have been changing about a week since week 3.
I have heard that they can leach toxic stuff back into the water and so it hasnt been a prob without it and i just left it. I ran my freshwater for about a year and a half without it and it was fine. What kind of skimmer should i buy? Thanks for everybodys info keep it comming i am new to saltwater and love to learn. Horse wisdom Current Tank Info: gal saltwater tank ,2 Aquaclear ,2 w 10k metal halides.
I have mixed feelings on this to as I have had a running for 8 years with no skimmer and my for 3 years with a skimmer and my has been less trouble but the water doesn't stay near as clear.
Im not trying to make TOTM tank so its not that important to me. So the answer on my part is you do not need a skimmer but thay do help. Current Tank Info: aggresive, 3 gallon led build. Find More Posts by Curve. I thought that was insane, unless you like yellow-green water, but maybe they use an ASM G6 4foot high skimmer or something huge. I generally will start all tanks with a skimmer- most often oversized, and then as the tank matures and balances remove or reduce the skimming.
The exeption of course is nano tanks- or tanks where weekly water changes are performed. Chemi pure carbon will keep the water crystal clear in the absence of skimming. Skimmers are not entirely necessary for anything but sps corals, but lps can certainly benefit from one, and it will help keep waste under control. You don't need top of the line, but having one is good.
And if you EVER have to treat flatworms or some suchyou need a skimmer to get the dieoff out of your tank before it crashes it; even the lights out treatment for cyanobacteria requires one, and doing it without one does no good because there's no export of the dieoff products.
Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Skimmers are great and very beneficial at cleaning wastes out of the water. That provides a huge surface area to attract all these molecules onto. A skimmer concentrates all this dissolved muck at the top of the unit and small amounts trickle over the edge throughout the day. You want to keep an eye on your skimmer daily as you don't want the cup to overflow, releasing all the collected, scummy water, called skimmate.
You'll need to dump out the contents and keep the internal skimmer neck clean for visibility and also to ensure the crud is making it into the cup of the skimmer so it is fully removed from the system water. Without a skimmer on your system, all these molecules will get broken down by biological means but that creates substances like Nitrate NO3 which you want to avoid as sensitive reef animals are not fond of this substance.
I would say you generally want to keep Nitrates down to 10 ppm or less. The question is, why rely on a method that creates other harmful albeit less so substances when you can use a piece of equipment that works to strip them completely out?
In my opinion, a protein skimmer is easily one of the most important pieces of equipment on a saltwater aquarium. I suggest to not skimp on a quality one, seeing as how it is so important.
I don't believe it is something you would want to cut corners on. With a majority of the waste removed by a protein skimmer, you become less reliant on manual water changes and the other forms of filtration in your tank.
How does a protein skimmer work? Have you ever seen the foam that collects on the shore line of your favorite lake or ocean beach? A protein skimmer does the same thing. Do I need a protein skimmer? Recent Posts. It's Pretty Awesome! Sign Up Now. View Cart Checkout Now. Login Register Registered Customers.
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