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I have a 2 feet tank, filtration system is overflow, I have 3 small blue tangs, 1 clean shrimp and 2 true percular clown with 7kg live rock and Hawaii black live sand. I understand my tank are overload with fishes, I facing problem like nitrate too high, that why brown algae keep growing. I have a skimz BR80 bio reactor to assist me to reduce the NO3 in my tank. I also reduce the light duration to 6 hrs. I do water change every 3 to 4 days to reduce nitrate. I wish to have some advice on powerful skimmer that can do me a good job in keeping my NO3 low. I also add Continnum aquatics coraline purple.Cx to accelerator for coraline algae grown. Please advice which skimmer I should purchase and where to purchase. Thanks for advise.

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Btw, My tank can hold up to 16 gallon of water, I have bio homes , and ceramic in my filtration system, any advices on external hang on skimmer? I m thinking of getting Reef octopus BH 90 or BH 1000, any others good advice? Fishes waste in my tank keep increasing.

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You can check with iwarna on reef octopus skimmer. If your budget allow go for deltec hangon skimmer instead for a better skimmer. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
Thank you for your suggestion, I check with irwana today at about 5pm, they don't have this 2 model, any other where else I can get? If go for deltec,which external skimmer you suggest? Please advise. Thanks.

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Deltec mce300, 400 and 600. Reef octopus is good but a bit bulky to me. U can also check on bubble magus hang on skimmer. If u are on budget, redsea Prizm is working well. Another brand is skimz. Hope this help.

Tank : 4 X 2 X 2 with low iron front panel and external overflow

Skimmer : BK SM200 with waste collector

Return Pumps : Red Dragon 6m3 and Ehiem 1262

FR : 2 X Deltec 509 & powered by AB2000

Nitrate Filter : Deltec NF 509 and tee off from AB2000

Calcium R'tor : Deltec PF 501 with RM secondary chamber

Kalkwasser R'tor : Deltec KM500

Chiller : Pansonic 1 HP Compressor with 20m titanium Coil

Wave Makers : 4 X Tunze 6055 with 7096 & Vortec MP40w

Controller : GHL Profilux

Lighting : ATI Powermodule 10 or 8 tubes

Water Top-up : Water Top-Up tank powered by Tunze Osmolator

External Monitor : American Pinpoint pH and Temp. Monitor for main tank and GHL Profilux Controller to measure temp, pH, Redox

Ozonizer : Sander C50

UV : Corallife 6x

Algae Scrubbler

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Deltec mce300, 400 and 600. Reef octopus is good but a bit bulky to me. U can also check on bubble magus hang on skimmer. If u are on budget, redsea Prizm is working well. Another brand is skimz. Hope this help.
Many thanks for your help, but I heard reef octopus is good for protein skimmer, BH90 and BH1000 is it too big or bulky for my 2 feet tank? Roughly how much is mce300?

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If you're running a 2ft tank with no sump, space in aquarium very precious!

Would advice on a skimmer that has the pump externally..

So that you can keep more things on the tank.

Just my opinion hope it helps :)

I'm just learning too

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If you're running a 2ft tank with no sump, space in aquarium very precious! Would advice on a skimmer that has the pump externally.. So that you can keep more things on the tank. Just my opinion hope it helps :) I'm just learning too
Yup. I agree. That y I m looking for external skimmer or hang on type. Is there external type which can put thd floor? Cos I m thinking for deltec mc600.But it maybe too big to hang it behind my 2 feet tank.

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bro, just came across this

hope it helps

Yup. Thanks for the helpful link. I intend to create a fitration system like put a spong below the outlet of the skimmer to act as another fitration for my tank. Someone is also offering me reef octopus otp1000 skimmer. I would like to buy it to spare in case I wan to set up another tank. How is this otp 1000? Any advice?

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Aquareef- good skimmer and effective. We bought RO/DI unit yesterday . And try to make some water using tap for my next top up of tank water. And I also bought the TFS meter to test the reading for the RO/DI unit, the read was zero compared to tape water reading. (118ppm)

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