Recommendations for skimmer

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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I'm a long term freshwater fishkeeping addict.  In December I decided I should learn more about saltwater fishkeeping, so I wandered down to the Kennewick library and checked out all the saltwater aquarium books- which were few.  Not feeling much better off than before, I've been doing reading online and picking some people's brains.

I am hoping to start a tank some point after tax season.  I do believe I am going to use one of my forty breeders.  I don't want to start with a huge tank but I do want to have enough room to play around.  I have a 150 watt MH pendant, an older wet/dry sump with biowheel (which I don't think I will use, I will prob. make my own out of another aquarium- would like a refugium), and several pumps.  I have overflow boxes, but I think I would prefer to have the tank plumbed, which would mean finding a local shop willing to do the glasscutting.

So, couple quick questions--

1) Recommendations on places to get holes cut for plumbing?

2) Recommendation on skimmer for 40gal breeder?  I have an ancient venturi, no model name or number.

I want to do a reef tank, with the emphasis being on the softies and easier corals until I gain more experience.  Emphasis not on fish.

Also, does anyone here QT live rock in a separate tank with peppermint shrimp for aptasia eradication?  Or do you worry about it in-tank? 

[psa]

Also, does anyone here QT live rock in a separate tank with peppermint shrimp for aptasia eradication?  Or do you worry about it in-tank? 

Welcome!

I'll let others handle the protein skimmer question.  I use the the AquaC Remora with good results, though.

As far as QT for live rock, I deal with everything in tank when setting it up, but nothing goes in after that until it's sat in QT and been evaluated for pests.  I've dealt with way too much junk in the main tanks...

[Nate C.]

The Glass Nook in Richland (near Fred Meyer) and Bond & Co. glass in Kennewick are both pretty good shops to deal with.  There are also a couple members in the club with diamond bits for cutting holes.  We also have a member that builds a pretty mean air stone skimmer (which he can size to your application, cost will vary with size)...I've got one from him that will be going on the new 269 gallon tank.

Like Paul said, on initial set-up, dealing with issues in-tank has been fine.  We will be adding a QT system to deal with pests before going into the main system due to a couple pest issues we've been dealing with lately.  We will be treating before things go into the new tank this time, and then doing our best to be sure to not re-introduce anything down the road.