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[gareth.hubbarde]

Evening all. A bit of advice is needed. My tank is all set up, doing OK although brown diatoms on sand making it look ugly. It's 7 weeks old. My question is about protein skimmer, it keeps sliding down the tank and gets full with water. It's really annoying. Fella in Lfs shop said he took his skimmer out altogether. So the question is do I need it should I use one?

94l kent marine bio reef
11kg live rock
4kg sand, 2kg as live.
Kent marine nano skimmer
100g carbon
100g purigen
Filter floss
1000 l/pH return pump
100w heater

1 Mexican turbo snail
2 turbo snails
2 red legged hermit crabs
1 blue legged hermit
2 nassarius snails

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[ahuaia]

The smaller your tank is the less necessary a protein skimmer is I have a 10 gallon and do just fine without one . How heavily stocked your tank is also has an impact on whether or not you need one. I'm guessing you have a 20-30 gallon tank based on how much rock you have if that's the case you would probably be fine with out one as long as you stay on top of your water changes

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[gareth.hubbarde]

94litre 24g

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[mcgyvr]

remove it.. you don't need it..

 

[gareth.hubbarde]

Any recommendations for anything to fill the void with, carbon etc or should I just leave chamber 3 empty?

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[mcgyvr]

Just leave it empty..

 

[Turbomark]

That skimmer is too small to really be an effective solution. Purigen is essentially performing a similar task in your situation. I'd remove the skimmer and work on saving for a proper hob skimmer. I used a eshopps psk100 successfully on an older tank.

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[Turbomark]

Never mind the hob skimmer route, I glossed over and didn't realize that it was an aio type tank.

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[ladynavyvet]

I have a 40 gallon reef, and I don't us a skimmer either.

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[gareth.hubbarde]

Thanks all for the advice, skimmer is no out, surprising how loud it was, tank is super quiet now. Will carry on with 25% water changes weekly for few months.

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