king_neptune
Active Member
welcome. per your first few posts. you asked about skimmers.
You don't NEED them, but that said, they are a great way to do filtration.
go as big as your willing to afford. from the screen shots of your aquarium room, id wager your aren't on a tight budget.
A big + for you, since skimmers can go up to several thousand dollars. Thats what i consider the upper middle class, not even top end.
But for the avarage person, $200-500 is about what you would see in a typical system your size.
Another filtration system that works well is scrubbers. They require more attention than skimmers, but they do an amazing job! I myself have been experimenting back and forth over the last year. My final thoughts are:
-Skimmers give you the pristine ultra clean looking water, but you sacrifice by having slightly higher pollution. Also you have less microscopic organisms such as copopods and amphiopods.
-Scrubbers give you better water params(i.e. trites/trates ect). Also you end up with a far superior bio diversity.
I would call scrubbers the more noob friendly filtration since they are deffinatly forgiving of such things as over stocking and over feeding. You tax your system with too much stuff, and the scrubber will simply grow more algae. The more you feed it, the more it grows.
But theres sooooo much more to the world of filtration. You can really create your own unique system. Bio-balls, live sand, live rock, carbon filters, canisters, pads,granular feric oxide, carbon reactors, and my favorite Foam. I like foam wall builds, they IMO are probably the single most potent filtration to get. And they look pretty nice too:
You don't NEED them, but that said, they are a great way to do filtration.
go as big as your willing to afford. from the screen shots of your aquarium room, id wager your aren't on a tight budget.
A big + for you, since skimmers can go up to several thousand dollars. Thats what i consider the upper middle class, not even top end.
But for the avarage person, $200-500 is about what you would see in a typical system your size.
Another filtration system that works well is scrubbers. They require more attention than skimmers, but they do an amazing job! I myself have been experimenting back and forth over the last year. My final thoughts are:
-Skimmers give you the pristine ultra clean looking water, but you sacrifice by having slightly higher pollution. Also you have less microscopic organisms such as copopods and amphiopods.
-Scrubbers give you better water params(i.e. trites/trates ect). Also you end up with a far superior bio diversity.
I would call scrubbers the more noob friendly filtration since they are deffinatly forgiving of such things as over stocking and over feeding. You tax your system with too much stuff, and the scrubber will simply grow more algae. The more you feed it, the more it grows.
But theres sooooo much more to the world of filtration. You can really create your own unique system. Bio-balls, live sand, live rock, carbon filters, canisters, pads,granular feric oxide, carbon reactors, and my favorite Foam. I like foam wall builds, they IMO are probably the single most potent filtration to get. And they look pretty nice too:
