Lets see, how should I put this about the Jebo protein skimmer? I'd rather be 5 years old and stuck in a padded room with michael jackson than put one of those on my tank. Waste of money. Skimming is a difficult art to master and you can't cut price corners in attempting to purchase one. The seaclone skimmer (also reasonably priced) is a piece of junk too. If you're a UK resident, ask Chac where to get a skimmer. If you're a US resident, good skimmers include ASM, AquaC, and if you can find one, EuroReef. By far and away the best place to purchase skimmers is used either from a local club, or ebay. If you let us know where you're from, we can point you to a club.
As for the lighting... Their light is not bad, nor is it good. Its two downfalls are that the bulbs are not very efficient and the fans on the fixture are cheap and noisy as all hell. The ballast however functions very well and it still might be worth buying the fixture and replacing the bulbs with something of a little more quality (cause thats a dirt cheap price for even a 4x65 watt ballast let alone one mounted in a fixture). Again, lighting can be purchaseed very affordably used, especially from local clubs. Most of the guys in my club tweak with their lighting all the time and are constantly selling old parts. Worth checking out IMO.
One gets RO water either from a reverse osmosis unit mounted in your house somewhere, or from a local fish store
As for the lighting... Their light is not bad, nor is it good. Its two downfalls are that the bulbs are not very efficient and the fans on the fixture are cheap and noisy as all hell. The ballast however functions very well and it still might be worth buying the fixture and replacing the bulbs with something of a little more quality (cause thats a dirt cheap price for even a 4x65 watt ballast let alone one mounted in a fixture). Again, lighting can be purchaseed very affordably used, especially from local clubs. Most of the guys in my club tweak with their lighting all the time and are constantly selling old parts. Worth checking out IMO.
One gets RO water either from a reverse osmosis unit mounted in your house somewhere, or from a local fish store
. Where abouts in the US? A 200 gallon capacity skimmer might be ok, the important thing to find out is the manufacturer of the skimmer. If its a quality manufacturer, then I'd buy it. As for lighting, here things get really complex... Oppinions on lighting range greatly amongst those in the hobby however there are some standards. First thing to decide though is what (if any) corals you wish to stock, now and in the future. If you're just going for soft corals you can get away with affordable low-power T8 flourescents. If you want to venture into the LPS area, you'll probably want to go with T5 or Power Compact (like that jebo) lighting. And if you want to keep SPS, you're pretty much limited to a large array of T5 flourescents, or Metal Halide lighting. And heck, if you only want fish, you can just have standard T12 flourescents.
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