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Skilter 400 Fuge?


JayReefer

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Anyone ever mod a skilter 400 into a fuge? You could use one half fuge and other half skimmer(i know the skimmer is not good) but you could airstone it and make it better then nothing. Any thoughts?

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I use the skilter 400 as a refugium. I use one part for carbon and the skimmer. And the other part for live sand,live rock,and macro algae. I say its pretty good.

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Here's a pic of my 250. You can hot rod the skimmer as you know with an air stone. I used this 250 as a basic skimmer for a while, and now it's just a fuge/iceprobe port.

 

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The Remora works great. Very little maintenance, and the tank always looks great. Here's a pict taken this morning.

 

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Here's the setup...

 

20 gal all glass tank. Insulated on back, sides, and bottom with 5/8 styrofoam insulation. Remora Aqua C skimmer, Penguin Power filter with no medium (use it for water flow and a holding tank for misc stuff), Skilter 250 used as refugium with cheato/small rock, and as a chamber to use an IceProbe chiller. Tsunami wave maker for 2 rio 800 power heads, also powers the Penguin filter. Lighting consists of 2 VHO 75 watt 50/50 bulbs and 2 VHO 75 watt actinic bulbs. Bulbs are URI, and IceCap electronic ballast powers them From 7 AM to 7 PM. Finally, I have an Aqua Medic 250 Watt A/B 10,000K halide over the top of the VHO's for Noon time lighting from 10 AM ti 3 PM.

I use approx 10-15 ml of B-Ionic 2 part alkalinity and calcium additive. In addition to all the corals in the tank (Pict included above), I have one Purple Pseudochromis Fridmani, one yellow clown goby, and one green spotted manderain. All fish are doing well. The yellow goby is a pain in the a$$. It's always on my stony corals and prevents them from polyp expantion. The manderain is very healthy and active. He's always picking on food and readily takes frozen mysis shrimp.

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