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Lighting, Filtration & Other Equipment Specific discussions on aquarium equipment from protein skimmers to water pumps. Which are the best, what they do, and what you might need for your reef aquarium.

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Old July 16th, 2007, 04:50 PM
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good protein skimmer

do you guys know a good protein skimmer for a 125gal

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Re: good protein skimmer

A seaclone 150 should do the trick......LOL i would see if you could get a refugium/sump/skimmer combo
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Re: good protein skimmer

if you want a hang on skimmer i would strongly recommend aqua c remora pro thats what i use on my 125 but with a bigger rio pump like rio 2500
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Re: good protein skimmer

no hang ons it gonna be a wall divider

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Re: good protein skimmer

every thing ive heard from a bunch of sources say this is a good skimmer

http://www.livingreefs.com/forums/li...mer-today.html

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Re: good protein skimmer

AquaC Protein Skimmer
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Re: good protein skimmer

The Reef Stop

guy from reef central runs this website bought stuff from him also but these octopus skimmer are amazing alot of reefers in our club use them on big tanks check second page on there and the last one down is expensive but amazing one of my buddies has that one. I will put a link to it.

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Re: good protein skimmer

Euro-Reef RS 135

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Re: good protein skimmer

Octopus,ASM,Euro-Reef,MRC's,Bubblemasters,Aqua C,Coralife.......

So many good ones and bad ones out there
Whats in your budget?
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Re: good protein skimmer

doesn't really matter but i want a good one

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