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Skimmer really needed?!?!


Westfield

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^ What he said...

 

My 20g frag tank isn't planned to have a skimmer but I'll have a pretty hefty filtration media setup with dual media racks which I could run gfo, phosguard, purigen, carbon, etc. I do have a small skimmer for it to use if necessary however.

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I don't run one on the biocube 14. But I do about 50% water change every three weeks . It has some filter floss and carbon that gets rinsed weekly. This also has a 3 fish. Peppermint shrimp emerald crabs and an anemone plus about 20 corals.

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  • 3 months later...

I'd say a decent sized fuge with algae would work if it's mostly coral. I ran skimmer less 60 cube for a long time with fish. But I had a massive amount of algae in a refugium. Had to trim it like every 2 weeks

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In my 22 gallon, I have an algae scrubber, 10 gallon refugium, and a bag of chemipure. Macro algae is my friend. It’s a year old and everything is great. Protein skimmers aren’t necessary. 

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