Skimmers: Oversized or Undersized?

[Pickle_soup]

This is America baby, go big or go home.

 

[reefinginBD]

Okie thank you so much for the help!

 

[Rmckoy]

Realistically …
That’s a lot of fish .

In my 320 I have 15 and know for sure I would have trouble adding anymore in terms of aggression .

 

[jda]

One of the main reasons to have a skimmer is gas exchange. Larger is better for this.

As for organics, none of them will remove 100%. I run multiples on every tank and no dirty corals have ever had a problem - zoas/palys are banned from the tank since they grow so fast. My Colorado Sunbursts grow like crazy too. The whole dirty vs. clean thing is a myth, IMO, and everything will do well in solid water with a trace but not too much of an excess of building blocks.

 

[fish farmer]

Haha thanks. Will just bother you one last time, will overskimming cause problems with lps corals and the ones that like “dirty” water in general? I know it won’t be a problem for sps tho. Is there any solution to that?

I run this lps/softy tank with a reef octo classic 110...that's rated for a heavy bioload 60 gallon.

My tank is a sumped 29 gallon with three fish. I also have a chaeto refuge, no socks and run the skimmer dry. Currently low nitrates and phosphates....but do have a few in tank algae issues. Everything needs trimming. The tank did fine when I had undetectable N and P.

 

[Markcw]

Undersized for me have just brought the Bubble magnus QQ2 for my 170 litter and it's not pulling much out, been running around 3 weeks now and I have not had a skimmer for since setting up the tank but decided on one recently as I know it oxygenates the water brilliantly and control PH. I would rather under skim than over skim