Westfield Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Building a coral only tank 20 gallon Do I really need a skimmer ??? Thanks John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefNewby82 Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 That would depend on what nutrient export you planned on doing without a skimmer. As in...how large of water changes would you do? Would you run a phosphate reactor? What kind of corals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefer82 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 ^ 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbender88 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Again, heavily dependent on what's in your tank. Realistically for a 20 gallon tank though I don't think you would need one. Invest in good filtration, media +/- reactor. Water changes will help immensely as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatO Posted April 4, 2016 Report Share Posted April 4, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantaMonica Posted April 23, 2016 Report Share Posted April 23, 2016 Yes a strong enough algal export and you will have no nutrient problems, and you'll keep all the yummy particles in the water for the corals to feed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosportaquarium Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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