Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Rakie]

What about lifereef skimmers?

Great as far as I know, but I don't know much about them.

There's a lot of options, and frankly, Tunze are among the best due to their pumps alone -- But specifically not the 9004 in THIS case, for a tank of THIS size, with the fish she will definitely want to keep. That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm trying to get across. You can throw a dart at a wall of skimmer options and 99.9% of them will do the job perfectly, you can only lose if you're trying to put a nano skimmer on a tank with roughly 60-70g water volume.

 

[Rakie]

Thats actually a decent skimmer and value ...so i'm told

Yes I have one it works well. Finicky to tune at first and a semi-long break in period but once the Somatic or Vertex are running smoothly they are among the best.

 

[Musovski]

Great as far as I know, but I don't know much about them.

There's a lot of options, and frankly, Tunze are among the best due to their pumps alone -- But specifically not the 9004 in THIS case, for a tank of THIS size, with the fish she will definitely want to keep. That's what I'm saying. That's all I'm trying to get across. You can throw a dart at a wall of skimmer options and 99.9% of them will do the job perfectly, you can only lose if you're trying to put a nano skimmer on a tank with roughly 60-70g water volume.

I agree

 

[Fin]

What about lifereef skimmers?

Not really cheap and have a sizeable footprint, due to the external pump. Great skimmer though.

 

[najer]

"He's grumpy tank mom, something about cloudy water and buried corals?"

 

[najer]

 

[siggy]

Is that one of those Invisible fish? I have never not seen one before

 

[najer]

Is that one of those Invisible fish? I have never not seen one before

..., neither had I, fast as foook!

 

[sfin52]

I like the little puff of sand in the second pic. Thats a couple of nice shots

 

[Katrina71]

@najer very cute!!!

 

[Katrina71]

Andrew has asked me no less than 15 times in 2 days about the sump. He has been more than excited.

 

[Fudsey]

I'm trying to keep up

 

[Rakie]

Katrina your thread moves to fast, what size is the skimmer chamber you're going for? LengthxWidthxDepth

 

[Rakie]

I'm trying to keep up

It's not possible !

 

[Katrina71]

Katrina your thread moves to fast, what size is the skimmer chamber you're going for? LengthxWidthxDepth

That's what we were trying to decide.

 

[Katrina71]

 

[Katrina71]

@Lowell Lemon can you just make the skimmer chamber 7.0-7.5" wide. Still leaves me room for the fuge.

 

[Rakie]

I'm going to measure and send you the dc13 for a starting skimmer. I think it is 7x7 or so

 

[Rakie]

So don't rush to cut pieces yet Katrina, I would absolutely have mentioned all if this earlier if I saw your thread

 

[Katrina71]

So don't rust to cut pieces yet Katrina, I would absolutely have mentioned all if this earlier if I saw your thread

Look, he's already been waiting on us to decide. I googled several skimmers that you guys recommended. This size should accommodate several options.