red sea berlin skimmer

[saltyguy]

I am going to be setting up a 55 gallon reef tank. I found a berlin skimmer that someone wants to sell that is good for tanks up to 250 gallons. Would that be to much skimming for a 55 or maybe even a 125 gallon tank?

 

[Vinnie71975]

Re: red sea berlin skimmer

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11651205#post11651205 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by saltyguy
I am going to be setting up a 55 gallon reef tank. I found a berlin skimmer that someone wants to sell that is good for tanks up to 250 gallons. Would that be to much skimming for a 55 or maybe even a 125 gallon tank?

No such thing as too much Skimming i have a 100g skimmer on a 20g tank!

 

[saltyguy]

thanks i wasn't sure

 

[HumanIMDB]

Yup, everything I've read seems to indicate, "you can never skim too much".

I believe most people try to get a skimmer that is rated for double the tank volume. So, for a 55 gallon, you'd want to go with a skimmer that is rated for at least 125 gallons.

I actually had one of these on my 92 gallon (back when it was a Fish Only with Plastic Rock...oh the humanity), I found it worked well but I had to constantly adjust it to dial it in.

We may run it on the 92 gallon again if we don't get the Sump/Skimmer package we're looking at right away...