Water Purification

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I will second that, Bev's reefs are fantastic! Mind you Harvy's 33 gal cube (now no longer, sob sob sob) was the #1 reef I've seen and I believe he is a gadget geek. That said what really makes a good looking reef, is the the aquascaping. You can have a tank full of mushrooms, xenia, polyps, some shrimp and few damsels or clowns - if properly aquascaped it will look like a million bucks (whatever that means). Having said all this, I think a skimmer can be good and can be bad. I have an alveopora, it was not doing well until I removed my skimmer. That said, when I first started the tank, I had an algae growth in the water column problem (like not see you hand in the tank unless it was touching the glass 'algae growth in the water column problem') and I could not, for the life of me, change enough water to get it out. My trusty skimmer and 9 hours, BAM! Clean as a whistle!

So, everything in moderation...

-Pauli