Counter current skimmers

[TigerBarbs]

Are they completely worthless?? I'm looking for a protein skimmer to go on a 29 gal reef and don't want to spend lots of $$ on one.

[Sniperhank]

I have a cheap seaclone 100 on my 36 gal. This week it has skimmed half a cup of crap out of my water. It is all liquid skim so it could be doing a better job at skimming...but either way, before I had it up and running my water looked pristine. You just can't see all the garbage that is in your water.

[carey]

If weekly water changes are done and you dont overfeed or overstock you should be fine without a skimmer. I dont run one on my biocube and its been fine. The small cheap ones seem to be just that, cheap.

[Sqasnatch]

Don't get a seaclone

[melosu58]

Moved to General Hardware and equipment discussion.

[TigerBarbs]

Ok thanks!