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Hi, I've been away a few days, sorry. I hope you still get my reply. I am quite happy with my Sea Clone. It's certainly not the best in the west, but it does the job that I require of it. It does have a few annoying little habits. The coupling lock that connects the j tube to the reaction chamber must be attached just right or it sometimes drips. It also has a tendancy to put little bubbles into the tank after a coral feeding or water change. The little air intake adjuster thingy doesn't always fix this, but it clears up after an hour or so. I yanked the sponge prefilter off the pump because it always got gummed up and the skimmer wasn't catching as much debris as it does now. The pump has never stalled, the cup always fills up with lovely black crud, and My water tests out great, and since a better skimmer is much more expensive, I put up with the little quirks and am pretty happy with it. It is also rated for three times the tank size that I use it on, so that helps. No, I don't have a canister filter, just a dumb power filter from Wal-Mart. Not even a Whisper with the media bags that you can fill yourself, but an Aquatech with the pre-filled sealed cartriges that have a rediculously small sprinkling of carbon in them. I use it mostly to sift out bigger chucks on the mesh stuff, and to provide current. One of these days I may upgrade it. Ideally I would like a Whisper power filter, I like those, and a Turbflotor 1000 skimmer. It's nothing personal against the Sea Clone, but there are much better skimmers out there. Then I could slap the Sea Clone onto my 90 gallon FOWLR, since it has no skimmer at all. Happy skimmer shopping!
