Such Thing As Running To Big Of A Skimmer?

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by rastaangel

HAHA got that for reef octopus skimmers?

Sadly . . . No. Hopefully the manufacturer can provide you a better idea as to the skimmer's ability.

[deepRED]

To add to that, if you are doing all large angels, just put the largest skimmer you can afford/fit. You won't have issues with not having enough to pull because you'd be feeding a ton to keep the fish healthy and adding a lot of nutrients daily.

[Madmak]

I run an Elos NS4000 skimmer on a 200G. It is rated for up to 1100G. I haven't noticed any ill effects at all and it pulls LOTS of crap out and fast. I have a fairly high bio load and feed a fair bit. My nightly feed is a slurry of many frozen foods, vitamins, and coral food. This likely keeps the LPS happy.

http://www.marinedepot.com/ps_viewit...content=EO5565

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by rastaangel

Well I think I am gonna email the manufacture to see what they say about what I should run with what I have planned.
And being as tho I plan to run the tank near osmotic until I have all the fish in there there wont be any inverts in it... And even then I prob would have over 2 dozen fish once I cross every angelfish off my list and I know its gonna take some time to get the cash funds and find a healthy conspicious angelfish

FYI I had six large (each was 6-8") angelfish in my 230g and there was barely enough room in the tank for the six of them. Highly doubt 12 would be happy in a 180g, simply not enough room for them to have their own territory. Unless the plan is to way over crowd them.

I think if you are feeding heavily and have a large bio-load a skimmer rated for way larger of a tank is a better way to go. I have two largeish skimmers running on my system and could use another.

[rastaangel]

Theres more linear room in the tank ill be running.
And as you know having a few large angels together usually results in aggression once one establishes its territory and becomes the dominent one. The point is to overcrowd for 2 reasons #1 no one can become dominent and establish a territory becuase theres so many fish in and out of the area that fish is trying to establish as its home #2 if one of the larger fish does some how establish a territory there are so many others that one or two fish arnt singled out and attacked, the aggression will be spread out over all the others.
I have spent countless hours reading up on housing mulitple large angels while I have nothing to do and seem to have concluded that is one of the sure fire ways to do so, and I have also puttin it into affect in a system at home to try it... I currently have 8 large angle species in my 90g with no aggression

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by rastaangel

Theres more linear room in the tank ill be running.
And as you know having a few large angels together usually results in aggression once one establishes its territory and becomes the dominent one. The point is to overcrowd for 2 reasons #1 no one can become dominent and establish a territory becuase theres so many fish in and out of the area that fish is trying to establish as its home #2 if one of the larger fish does some how establish a territory there are so many others that one or two fish arnt singled out and attacked, the aggression will be spread out over all the others.
I have spent countless hours reading up on housing mulitple large angels while I have nothing to do and seem to have concluded that is one of the sure fire ways to do so, and I have also puttin it into affect in a system at home to try it... I currently have 8 large angle species in my 90g with no aggression

WOW I feel sorry for your fish, not really fair to the fish IMO to stuff so many large angels into a small tank Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, even Big Als doesn't put a bunch of large angels into small tanks together.

[rastaangel]

Its only temp not like there in there forever, but im not gonna get into fish vs tank size, thats not the point of this. And FYI ive seen almost every fish store stick a large fish in a small tank. An 8' tank is more then most people have for there angels