I don?t skim.

I have never gone skimmerless, but that is very intersting to hear.

I just wanted to comment that I think what Niko said is SO true and SO important. Each hobbyist has different views, approaches, and methods, which may work for some and not for others. Afterall, if there was only one solution, this hobby wouldn't be all that exciting right?
 
JOSEPHLB said:
Does the ocean have a skimmer? :)
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That's actually a silly question, and not nearly as rhetorical as you probably intended.

The ocean has all sorts of stuff your tank doesn't have, and vice versa.

Your tank is not the ocean. It doesn't contain bazillions of gallons of water, nor millions and millions and billions of uncountable organisms.

Nice try, though, spanky. ;)
 
Subliminal said:
That's actually a silly question, and not nearly as rhetorical as you probably intended.

The ocean has all sorts of stuff your tank doesn't have, and vice versa.

Your tank is not the ocean. It doesn't contain bazillions of gallons of water, nor millions and millions and billions of uncountable organisms.

Nice try, though, spanky. ;)
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I meant it in good humor... :dance2:

but.. when you think of it.. there could possibly be some sort of skimming out in the ocean..

Tidal waves pound the beach and rocks furiously.. i'm sure this causes a foaming action..
... residual proteins are then left on the rock/sand/beach surface after the bubbles subside.
 
JOSEPHLB said:
I meant it in good humor... :dance2:

but.. when you think of it.. there could possibly be some sort of skimming out in the ocean..

Tidal waves pound the beach and rocks furiously.. i'm sure this causes a foaming action..
... residual proteins are then left on the rock/sand/beach surface after the bubbles subside.
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Yep. Waves are nature's skimmers.

And I do not skim.
 
No flack from me either. One of my buddies doesn't use a skimmer and his tank looks great and his parameters are where they should be.

Skimmers are definitely not necessary but are usually recommended. I still recommend them for people just starting out and buying their new live rock. I've gone through spurts having my skimmer on and off. Within the next couple of months I think at least my FOWLR skimmer will remain off. If there are no major issues, I think any tank can eventually be weaned off of a skimmer.
 
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Oceanic skimming in progress, please drive slowly. :look:
 
I not seen anywhere to what size tank this is, for which I assume it to be a small tank. But as no skimmer, this can be done and some might ask at what risk if any. The idea is to not have a large bio load for one thing and then were talking a great deal of water changes.

Again, there is all kinds of ideas about this not skimming a tank and one has to see if one is doing this for a number of years already and this person have all the same corals or fish, who is to say that one should even criticize for we cannot argue with success. I myself find that this type of success that others had doing this same very thing and meet up with failure with any number of problems. That is so much for the short term successor of doing this very same thing.

Just like nano tanks with skimmers, they too can fail for whatever reasons they do. It is so much harder for many to maintain a small nano tank long term then a larger reef system. But that is what I gathered from others in these forum sites. I never thought to begin a nano reef tank myself for which I never had the desire to keep one. Still if I wanted to ever keep a nano reef tank, I would.

For yes, their much cheaper in cost as far as stocking the tank then one who has to stock a 100 gal and up reef tanks. Even that nano reef tank that was in my lfs that I post the pic of that tank and even the lfs say to how difficulty it be to maintain them long term.

But as I said, if I wanted to do a nano tank, what I heard from others would not put a damper on my thoughts to what I in mind to do in this hobby for there be all kinds of ways to do things and yet there be newer things to discover in this hobby.

I see at the end of this thread that the topic was a bit side track, we can never compare to the ocean reefs, there we not need to maintain or do a change of water or change around our MH lights, etc. The list can go on>

Buddy
 
I've never skimmed. For a start mine is a "self contained" trickle filter tank so everything is built in and I'd have a problem trying to fit one. Yes I've had problems with parameters in the past but I think a lot of that was down to not being able to do water changes when I wanted to and using tap water for top ups. Now I am the proud owner of an RO/DI unit I'm pleased to say everything is going swimmingly.
 
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