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| View Poll Results: If skimmers didn't exist, which would be your next choice? | |||
| Wet/Dry (trickle) filter |
   
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12 | 8.51% |
| Fluidized bed filter |
  
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5 | 3.55% |
| UV sterilizer |
  
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9 | 6.38% |
| Mechanical filter |
  
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10 | 7.09% |
| Live rock/sand bed (exclusively) |
  
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75 | 53.19% |
| Carbon filter |
  
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14 | 9.93% |
| Other |
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16 | 11.35% |
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#1
02-24-2006, 11:42 AM
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I decided to make the poll based on the fact that the vast majority of reefers (IMO) would have chosen skimmers as their first choice. I wanted to know what people felt about other forms of filtration and open a general discussion about them.
Ozonators will have to fall into the "other" category, as most people have a budget that wouldn't allow one. Great input so far, Rich.
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90gal Starfire mixed reef, 400W MH (Giesemann 13K megachrome/Icecap E-ballast), (2) 54W T5 Giesemann true actinic, 45gal sump (65W 50/50 PC), ASM G-3 Skimmer, Mak 4 return, Sequence Dart closed loop, foam backdrop, 120 lbs LR, 2" sandbed, & 1 dillhole running the show. 
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02-24-2006, 03:25 PM
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First would be live rock and sand for me, not a skimmer.
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02-24-2006, 04:31 PM
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I do want to mention that I am not totally devoid of filtration means. I have for years used Chemipure in a Fluval. I don't know if it does wonders as claimed. However, I have never had a problem with tank crashes etc., therefore I will continue using it even when later in the year I am forced to go FOWLR. And as a note to Brad, I have a few bits of SPS corals. Notably a smallish colony of Blue Tipped Staghorn that does great.
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