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Oops! I didn't see the tank size. N1z's right skimmer's definitely not needed. I have a 20 US gallon nano that runs fine without a skimmer. Sorry about that!

I've never heard of chlorine remover making the water cloudy...perhaps someone else has experience with this? If there's nothing in the tank and no reason to have the light on, I don't see why you should.

I posted this under M&R CC... Yes I'd get a good, quality skimmer. Your Fluval would be good for running media, however I'd suggest you invest in a decent amount of live rock and a refugium to make your reef semi-self supporting...makes things a lot easier IMO.

Yes you can still have corals, and it depends on the coral for putting them directly on the substrate.

What made the water cloudy?

Yes I'd get a good, quality skimmer. Your Fluval would be good for running media, however I'd suggest you invest in a decent amount of live rock and a refugium to make your reef semi-self supporting...makes things a lot easier IMO.

LR is not a necessity for a marine tank, but it is highly recommended and very helpful...especially if you're keeping a reef tank or finicky fish. You could fill your tank with base rock for a lot cheaper and buy a few pounds of LR to seed it and go from there. It will all become live...

Lots of people promoted the DSB idea and that's what I went with originally. Things went great until about a year later when all the junk that had built up in the sandbed started leaching back out and it was a nightmare of nitrates, phosphates, the resulting algae, couldn't keep my param's...

Looks good so far. What kind of lighting do you have? Just curious, planning on stocking any coral?

I love the multi's with red, green, and blue. I had a beauty that was a brilliant red from head down to halfway down all it's fins where it abruptly turned a beautiful bluish-green in a perfectly smooth, seamless, straight line. That was my absolute favorite of all time. Picture's at home though.

I customize all the media in all my filters to meet my needs best. I run a single polypad in one of my filters along with a small media bag containing GAC and a bag of purigen (this is for my nano reef). I also have another filter on the same tank with different media. But in answer to your...

I think if hers did go through another cycle, it would be minimal. Nitrifying bacteria inhabit most surfaces in your tank (substrate, decor, etc.), granted the concentration tends to be greater in the filter b/c of all the surface area available on the media inside. Still it's best to leave...

You can buy bonded filter pads and polypads in different sizes and cut them down to the size that you would need. I think you would be okay with a betta in a 16 liter tank. I change out my filter pads every two weeks and rinse them out weekly. Changing them every week would get a little too...

I want two 300 gallon tanks The first 300 to be FW with: -Sailfin pleco -Tinsel Barbs -Rainbow shark -Pearl Gouramis -Giant Danios -Maybe something else later on, we'll see The second to be SW with: -2 Percula clowns -Red Sea Regal Angel -Powder Blue Tang -Purple Tang -Blonde Naso Tang -Flame...

2 false percula clowns - Marlin & Nemo (yes, the girl's name is Marlin) 2 sailfin plecos - Big Ugly & Little Ugly (Big is 1 foot, Little is 6 inches) 2 silver sailfin mollies - Molly, Maggie, Uno (Molly's baby) and the Quads (4 of Maggie's babies) Bettas - Michael, Spaz, Maximilian Oscar - Oscar...

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Just wanted to stop in and say Hi, it's my first time browsing TFF and it looks like I can learn a lot and hopefully provide some insight to others if at all possible. I've been in this hobby for about 16 years now. I've kept FW for 16 years, SW for 5 years, and Reef for 1 year. My favorite...