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anyone using a skilter?
I am 2 months into my first sw tank and my lfs suggested I buy a 250 skilter he has for sale. It is apparently a skimmer and a filter built together. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with one of these. Sounds very cool but I don't want to wast my money if it is crap
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It is a piece of crap. Not really a skimmer. I have one from about 10 years ago, and I took the "skimmer" part out, and modified it into a fuge for one of my small tanks. Then the motor died and I threw it out.
How big is your tank? I could reccommend a skimmer for you that isn't too expensive. The AquaC Remora line is the lowest quality I would reccommend. Anything less is a waste of money imo (like Prism, BakBak, SeaClone, Coralife). Oh, and don't listen to the guy at the LFS anymore. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He was trying to make money off a newbie. Good move asking here. Find a better LFS to go to. Last edited by Myka; 08-25-2008 at 08:18 PM. |
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Good advice.
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I had one worked not bad as a skimmer but it was very noisey.
Get something different The red sea prizm skimmers are good
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This "might" skim something on a 5g nano, but it's not really a real skimmer.
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It depends what goldie is using it for, if its for a nano then it would work excellently, just replace the filter floss with live rock rubble and you have all 3 types of filtration occuring in one cheap set up. Little fast to just shoot it down with out knowing the intended use. Levi |