Question about Going Skimmerless for sometime

[jawwad2004]

Hey guys, my deltec skimmer came in on Friday. . .with a major crack! I was so pissed since I shipped out my current skimmer because someone had bought it.

So basically I am going to be skimmerless for a little over a weeks time max. The earliest I might get my replacement skimmer will be this Friday, which I will then install on Saturday. I have a 90 gallon with a 20 gallon sump and 10 gallon refugium.

What I am worried about are my tangs, since I know that they require a lot of oxygen. Also my angel, which so far has been doing great. I havent had much success with any angle besides the Regal that I have now. Im hoping that the 160lbs. of live rock in my tank and about a 23x turnover rate can hold the tank over for about 10 days.

Should I take anything else into consideration?
Thanks!

-Jawwad

 

[jackson6745]

Jawwad if you're worried about oxygen you can incres surface agitation in the main tank. You will be fine for a short time with no skimmer

 

[jawwad2004]

Jawwad if you're worried about oxygen you can incres surface agitation in the main tank. You will be fine for a short time with no skimmer

One step ahead of ya, I already have my return pointing close to the surface, and have my seio also pointing a little closer to the surface.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

how about a good old water change at halfweek.. :scratchch :biglaugh: :biggrinpa

 

[DRZL]

maybe this would be a nice time to up your flow, always a plus especially for tangs, they love swimming against the current, not to mention keeping the water less stagnant

 

[masterswimmer]

No question about flow and increased surface agitatioin. But like Tony said, I'd do a couple of 10% WC's this week. Can't hurt even if your skimmer was online and working.

Russ

 

[jawwad2004]

Woke up this morning, and my yellow tang wasnt looking too good. Was swimming actively, but the yellow coloration had turned white.

 

[masterswimmer]

Woke up this morning, and my yellow tang wasnt looking too good. Was swimming actively, but the yellow coloration had turned white.

Sounds like a nice water change is the course of action today.

 

[House of Laughter]

J,

Tangs, especially yellows, will have a faded look when they "wake up" and it can take some time to come back - so, if the fish just "woke up" they need time to color up.

I doubt the tangs would be dying just from not having a skimmer or losing some agitation - I have seen them kept in tanks with very little, and sometimes close to no flow.

JMHO

House

 

[DEEPWATER]

I have my main tank skimmerless for 2 weeks ,no prob what so ever
I also have a forest of maro algea in my sump iwould say about 5 lbs of chaeto..Im waiting on my skimmers ,seems like tunzes is on back order till next week , also doing 10 gal water change a week and 20 a month so im cool
As house said ,my yellow tangs wake up whitish and as the light go on ,about 20mins or so ,they are back to bright yellow
Good luck im in the same boat as you ,but with 2 tanks skimmerless

 

[Sean]

Also waiting on my Deltec order

Skimmerless for two months now.
500 gallon system with refugium no problems. The system doesn't have a lot of fish in it yet but has a good amount of corals for a two month old system. It hasn't affected the animals yet. I probably wont have a skimmer for another month or so but I'm not scared. Haven't done a water change yet on the system.

 

[GQ22]

Maxpower had a really nice tank skimmerless for a a long time, got published and everything. 24/7 lighting on fuge plus lots of carbon would be beneficial when i asked him how he did it.

 

[barebucta]

Maybe an airstone w/pump would be a temporary fix?

 

[spykes]

why would you want to handlecap yourself like that, skimmerless gives you high amount of dissolved organics, and also you will be relying on macros, which also have a byproduct which isnt just Co2. you will go through A sexual phases as well as leading to lower amount of iron in your system, with low iron your macro will not grow that quick, because macros uses iron. the byproduct of macro algae is toxins, depends on which type of macro algae i do not know if it's worth it. the only skimmerless system i would use is a cryptic sump which uses high amount of cryptic sponges. skimmerless is a very bad idea and everyone should agree with me on this one.

 

[Deanos]

why would you want to handlecap yourself like that, skimmerless gives you high amount of dissolved organics, and also you will be relying on macros, which also have a byproduct which isnt just Co2. you will go through A sexual phases as well as leading to lower amount of iron in your system, with low iron your macro will not grow that quick, because macros uses iron. the byproduct of macro algae is toxins, depends on which type of macro algae i do not know if it's worth it. the only skimmerless system i would use is a cryptic sump which uses high amount of cryptic sponges. skimmerless is a very bad idea and everyone should agree with me on this one.

Wow! All of this in a little over a week :scratch: You better tell them to express ship it, Jawwad!! Or maybe, Spykes didn't read your entire post :scratch:

 

[spykes]

my bad i saw skimmerless and replyed, some guy on RC SPS keeper said the same thing, which i think people are nutz

 

[GQ22]

personally while i recognize the keeping a small piece of the ocean in such a confined space is in itself "un natural" my ultimate goal in this hobby is to produce a thriving reef with as little un natural elements and power suage as possible. ie sans skimmer. i dont think its nuts, but something we should be striving for.

 

[Deanos]

personally while i recognize the keeping a small piece of the ocean in such a confined space is in itself "un natural" my ultimate goal in this hobby is to produce a thriving reef with as little un natural elements and power suage as possible. ie sans skimmer. i dont think its nuts, but something we should be striving for.

What kind of low power usage lighting do you plan to use on this reef? Natural sunlight? How about replicating natural water movement? No pumps? Why choose the skimmer in your decision to go "natural" when there's plenty other artificial items on most reef tanks?

 

[NYPDFrogman]

agree with all, do water changes. anyone have an extra skimmer to loan you till your's gets there? any skimmer is better than no skimmer.

 

[jawwad2004]

Day 2 skimmerless.
My anemone's tentacles dont arent extending as long and as thick as they were. Polyp extension has reduced as well. I just put an express order in for the unit to be shipped next day air, hopefull I should have it by tomorrow.