I picked up a used RSM130 last year from a fellow canreefer, and am wishing I would have waited to buy a similiar sized tank setup instead. They look great, but there are some mods that I would like to make now, but do to their already finished look, are difficult to do. For one, the skimmer is very poor, the lighting is okay, the return pumps tend to produce a certain amount of micro bubbles in the system, and you need to add a sump to have a refugium. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of nice features, but for the price, you could get a pretty nice setup if you added all the pieces separately, and wouldn't have to worry about upgrading from a crappy skimmer.
You can pay even more, and upgrade to a decent skimmer, the Tunze 9002, but then it sticks out the back lid, or you have to do mods for the lid.
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