I recently bought a 29 gallon Coralife Bio Cube and set it up on December 29, 2015. I switched over from a 24 gallon Aquapod reef tank since it sprang a leak after 9 years. I am on the fence about using the oceanic protein skimmer which I was running in my 24 gallon tank. My question is do I even need the protein skimmer since it does not sit well in the first chamber in the rear compartment of the 29 gallon Coralife Bio cube ?
In the second chamber of the 29 gallon I have the inTank media basket with chemipure blue, matrix, purigen and next to that is the inTank Fuge basket with cheato lit at night when the main tank lights are off. I also have filter floss in the first media basket that the water director spills into before it goes into the fuge basket. If I could find a good protein skimmer that fits in the first chamber without modification or losing the hood I would like to run a protein skimmer on this new tank. I do have two black ice clowns and one pearl jawfish ,snails,one emerald crab. I also have small frags of green star polyps, zoas, acan, Duncan coral one of each. The hood has stock lighting except I switched out the daylight lamps for a catalina compact 50/50 actinic/10k plus 2 50watt additional moon lights. In the tank I have two koralia nano flow pumps and a wave maker and the ehiem 75 watt heater. All constructive thoughts are appreciated.
In the second chamber of the 29 gallon I have the inTank media basket with chemipure blue, matrix, purigen and next to that is the inTank Fuge basket with cheato lit at night when the main tank lights are off. I also have filter floss in the first media basket that the water director spills into before it goes into the fuge basket. If I could find a good protein skimmer that fits in the first chamber without modification or losing the hood I would like to run a protein skimmer on this new tank. I do have two black ice clowns and one pearl jawfish ,snails,one emerald crab. I also have small frags of green star polyps, zoas, acan, Duncan coral one of each. The hood has stock lighting except I switched out the daylight lamps for a catalina compact 50/50 actinic/10k plus 2 50watt additional moon lights. In the tank I have two koralia nano flow pumps and a wave maker and the ehiem 75 watt heater. All constructive thoughts are appreciated.
