Originally Posted by Hawk_fish
BTW what do you mean two skimmers on one tank is an excuse to set up a whole new tank?
And I am just going to get another Maxi Jet Powerhead of 280 gph so I will have a lot more turnover.
Bailey is right, I was making a joke. I'm kind of obsessive. People often hear of my fish hobby and say "Hey, I've got an old tank sitting in my basement I'll sell/give it to you."
My girlfriend complains every time someone offers me a tank for a good price, because she knows that I can't have an empty aquarium sitting around the house... as soon as I get it and stick it in the basement, it's only a matter of a couple weeks before I start spinning my wheels about what I can do with it... 2000 dollars later...
I might tend to disagree on you about your opinion of two skimmers versus one. While I agree that it won't hurt to have two skimmers, it is not a subsitute for a bio filter. Your bio filter is helping with the nitrogen cycle. All the skimmer is doing is raking crap out of the water before it has a chance to break down into the ammonia>nitrites>nitrates. Although it will obviously help (the less there is to break down, the less the problem), it won't eliminate waste breakdown, let alone ammonia released directly (fish urine). Proper biologic filtration is absolutely, A-#1, key to a successful tank.
If you have 1-2lbs LR/gal in your tank, you'll be fine with your setup. If this is an FO tank or you don't have that much LR, you need to add a wet-dry, a HOB with bio-media, or something else.
