Hugh Mann
Valuable Member
Preface: It is a stupid question, I know. This build is my first foray into big aquariums, and I don’t quite know how things scale with increasing water volumes.
Looks like my protein skimmer kicked the bucket. The flooding in BC hit my place and I’ve been able to save a good amount of my equipment, much to my surprise.
Of all things though, the skimmer is not one of them. It was an old Vertex IN-180, but the pump refuses to work, it was working fine before. Cleaned it out, best as I could.
Anyways, a new $500+ protein skimmer just isn’t in my budget for the foreseeable future ($17,000 in repair costs, huzzah!). So I am wondering, exactly how crucial is a protein skimmer to a large aquarium without corals? Fish and invertebrates only. Total water volume will be about 300 gallons, bioload will be pretty light with 6 fish, though one is an 18” moray. My guess is probably not very if I do regular water changes.
I would love to wait until I can replace it, but unfortunately my fish are crowding up my friends tank, so I gotta get this monstrosity set up
Looks like my protein skimmer kicked the bucket. The flooding in BC hit my place and I’ve been able to save a good amount of my equipment, much to my surprise.
Of all things though, the skimmer is not one of them. It was an old Vertex IN-180, but the pump refuses to work, it was working fine before. Cleaned it out, best as I could.
Anyways, a new $500+ protein skimmer just isn’t in my budget for the foreseeable future ($17,000 in repair costs, huzzah!). So I am wondering, exactly how crucial is a protein skimmer to a large aquarium without corals? Fish and invertebrates only. Total water volume will be about 300 gallons, bioload will be pretty light with 6 fish, though one is an 18” moray. My guess is probably not very if I do regular water changes.
I would love to wait until I can replace it, but unfortunately my fish are crowding up my friends tank, so I gotta get this monstrosity set up
