Hydor slim skimmer and tunze 9004

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I replaced the Red Sea Max 130D stock skimmer with the Hydor Slim Skim Nano skimmer as the stock skimmer sounded like a muscle car idling in my living room.

Performance wise I don't see the Hydor pulling much more than slightly darker than tea colored water from the tank but it is dead silent, built very well and does produce very fine microbubbles with zero entering back into the tank. The skimmer also has a tiny footprint of 3 x 3" so you can fit it into tight spaces easily.

Once I increase the bioload of the tank I'll have a better idea of what it can really do but I would think that the 35 gallon rating on this thing is pretty much all it could handle. The regular sized model I believe is good for a ~50 gallon tank but the collection cups on these guys are pretty small and need to be emptied often.