Wanted to see who has had good success with running a reef tank without a skimmer. I have little to no room in my stand and am tired of working around my skimmer to perform maintenence. Plus it seems every time I go to clean the skimmer I seem to break a part it's pump.DOH!
I have about a 2" layer of sand in my tank and the tank has been running for almost a year now. I have been running a recurculating skimmer thats rated for about 300 gallons. Keep in mind my tank is only 50 gallons.(nutty) I have 2flase percs and a mandrin goby. the rest is all lps,sps, and some shrooms. I'm running about 60+ pounds of live rock in the display and some rubble in the sump. I have a sock that gets changed out once a week and I do a 10 gallon water change every 2 weeks. Since I just broke another part on the pump tonight! I'm gonna try and give this a go without one. Please feel free to give me your 2 cents(scary)