400g Build - Skimmer Advice

[tom obrecht]

I too am an ATB user/believer and think the 1050 would handle the load just fine.

 

[bullitr]

Heh, I'm not hating on you for expressing your opinion. I will try to avoid taking this tank back into an SPS dominated tank though. And I did say I wanted to avoid a super expensive skimmer - notice that the BK 300 was what previous posts suggested which runs around $2300 while I was looking around the $1200 range. I have the room for a tall skimmer since I have a large open fish room behind the scenes so there's not any advantage with an in-sump skimmer for me. This was around the same price point that I was originally looking at when I was strongly considering the Reef Octopus 8000 and MRC MR-4. However, the apparent satisfaction from LifeReef customers speaks volumes while the RO customer service sounds like it has gone downhill a bit since CoralVue got involved. Not speaking down about BK I'm sure they are fine skimmers and if I required a skimmer to fit into a stand maybe I would consider spending the extra grand.

I sold my 1 year old 12.5 for 1k to a good friend
Brand new 1260 is 1600
And you will save so much on electricity compare to energy hog life reef.

 

[hobbzz]

I had a life reef on a 300g and it didn't do squat after fiddling with it for almost a year. Different pumps, different configurations. My cheapo reef octopus outperforms it exponentially. I hated it and will never get another. I would have gone with an Orca Pro 1. The Atlanta aquarium uses an Orca Pro 3 on their big coral frag tank, and they have enough money to get whatever they want. Very impressive skimmers.

 

[chris o]

So which one did you ultimately pick?

Chris

 

[tom obrecht]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2576437&highlight=atb