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Skimmerless for the last 9 years. There are more negatives than positives to having a skimmer.I'm seeing a lot of people saying that it's fine to go skimmerless, but not a lot of those folks posting pics of their tanks...
Negatives: usually cost money to purchase, maintenance time to clean, potential for malfunction / flood.
There are only two positives of having a skimmer which can be accomplished in many other ways: oxygenation (insignificant effect in most tanks), and nutrient export (never been an issue for me).
Skimmer was the biggest waste of money for me to date besides the AI line of products.
All that being said...the pictures of tanks with skimmers do seem nicer Not sure I would consider that a strong cause and effect argument though. People like myself who run without may just be lazier in general and would never put in the effort it takes to run a reef of the month quality tank regardless of what equipment we had. I know my tank looks better today than it did with a skimmer at least.