Originally Posted by DragonZim
Understandable I guess... I'm all in favor of having the strongest possible military, working for a living and not expecting the gov't to save you or give you a handout, low taxes, didnt vote for Obama... My father worked his whole life for a defense contractor...
Maybe they will let you visit and feed her occasionally. This is no joke, I visited a fish store a couple hours away that claims to have the same hippo tang in a 5 gallon nano for 3 years by feeding it only a couple pellets a day. I am not inclined to believe them, but they claimed that.
I think you could get a better deal than that on CL if you keep on the lookout. In this economy many people are getting out of the hobby unfortunately.
Bubbles popping at the surface cause salt creep all over the glass above and on everything which can be a pain and an eye soar. That is one reason to not have one.
Actually the skimmer looks ok, but I would still go with the refugium because you can always put a skimmer in the refugium but would be hard to put a refugium where the skimmer is.
It doesn't look like you have a lot of water movement, you could try adding a koralia or something to increase water flow. Also you could suck a lot of that off during waterchanges which you should probably do weekly.