Keep old skimmer or bite the bullet?

75gal · 11/20/2016, 05:41 PM

I have an ancient euroreef rs100 skimmer on my 80 gallon cube with a 55 gallon sump/refugium (roughly 30 gallons in the sump) I'm wondering if I should bite the bullet and get a Skimz SM201. Fish are; 2 clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty, 1 fire fish goby, 1 blue chromis, 1 algae blenny, and a yellow eye kole tang. It's overkill sure but well within budget and I plan on plumbing another tank through the sump in the future. Is it safe to assume that a bigger more efficient skimmer is always a good addition? Just don't want to dump the money for not much of an improvement in production. Thanks

ghstrider · 11/22/2016, 05:28 PM

May be overkill but depending what u wanna move up to and how soon. BRS has em on sale now and i ordered an sm201 for my 150. Id do it...

11/20/2016, 05:41 PM	#1
75gal Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 141	Keep old skimmer or bite the bullet? I have an ancient euroreef rs100 skimmer on my 80 gallon cube with a 55 gallon sump/refugium (roughly 30 gallons in the sump) I'm wondering if I should bite the bullet and get a Skimz SM201. Fish are; 2 clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty, 1 fire fish goby, 1 blue chromis, 1 algae blenny, and a yellow eye kole tang. It's overkill sure but well within budget and I plan on plumbing another tank through the sump in the future. Is it safe to assume that a bigger more efficient skimmer is always a good addition? Just don't want to dump the money for not much of an improvement in production. Thanks

11/22/2016, 05:28 PM	#2
ghstrider Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 2,405	May be overkill but depending what u wanna move up to and how soon. BRS has em on sale now and i ordered an sm201 for my 150. Id do it...