Skilter 250?

[amd]

anyone have any experiance with these, are they worth the 25$ I am gonna pay?

 

[reichebrown]

i have an aquamast 400 the skilter 400 w/o the skimmer. I like the filter from what i have heard the skimmers dont work all to well and i have found many DIY mods that put an air stone in the skilter tube to make better foam. Mine does have the air intake to make the bubbles and it is quite noise i mainly run it for more airation when im not in the room. Hope this helps

 

[amd]

ok, thanks, i'll look into the airstone thing

 

[reichebrown]

i know you ar trying to save a few buck to get a skimmer and a filter in one, but i wouldnt advise buying something that you will have to modify to get it to work out of the box

 

[dbacksrat]

Try to find a decent skimmer used on the For Sale forums of Reef Central.

 

[amd]

its for a nano

 

[dbacksrat]

If it's for a nano don't even bother with a skimmer, just do a nano. You won't be able to find an effective skimmer for a nano anyway.

 

[S.Reef]

Current just came out with a fission nano skimmer...I think its current. May want to try that out.

 

[reichebrown]

yeah a small nano skimer is like 30 bucks

 

[kevin4052002]

Sadly, all I've ever heard from the Nano-Reef forums is that Current's Nano Protein Skimmer is just a bubble factory, and hardly skimms. More a waste of money. Spend the money on some RO water. Keeping water changes frequent would be more efficient on a nano.

 

[amd]

well i do and from the start used R/O water from the grocery store, since my tank supposedly12 gallon would hold only 9 before i added sand and rock, i test my tanks outside first! I guess i might try he 30 dollar skimmer, if it just does a little that good enough. I already have a 55gallon with some VERY nice cichlids and I cannot have any more big tanks. so i am going nano with a reef and dont worry about so much cost as size. so with that in mind i guess I am trying to put an extrordanary amount of effort into keeping the water polished and very high in quality, no matter what especially that it isnt harder to to keep nano's than larger, just needs more precision in the water care.

 

[reichebrown]

the skilter 250 might not be a bad idead... like i said i like my 400. i havnt looked into the buble stone mod and how much work you would have to do.

 

[amd]

i could just get a 400 and have a "reef durring hurricane tank"

 

[Mushroomman]

Wouldnt bother with eitherin a nano, just do weekly waterchanges and get your water moving through the live rock (biological filter) with a powerhead.