someone help me translate this note on my new aquarium

[NicoleC]

Yes, you can get away without a sump. I would add a HOB skimmer for aeration, though. Without a sump or a skimmer, your O2 levels are probably going to be very low, possibly fatal to many fishies.

 

[Yinger]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7499614#post7499614 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by duwlski
how many years/tanks you've been gone through? lol..
if you keep this up, 10 years from now you might end up converting your swimming pool to coral pool

haha, been through a 100 gallon fowler, 12 gallon nano reef, 40 gallon sps, and now in the process of setting up a 120.