Oceanic Biocube 14 Skimmer

Hey all I'm thinking about running an Oceanic Biocube 14 skimmer in my JBJ Nanocube. The skimmer itself gets ok reviews online. However, most of the "nicer" nanocubes im seeing online are running it. When I had my previous nanocube I never even considered running a skimmer with a tank that small.

I'd like to get some of your feedback/opinions. I don't really want to do weekly water changes as suggested (I did monthly wc's on my other nano) Im going to stock it softies, rbta, a clown and maybe a firefish goby or something like that.

What Im thinking I'll end up doing is wait till further down the road and see how the coral do. (sometimes its just fun to get equipment happy though haha)

Also while I'm here, I was looking at an ebay led fixture. it has 4-3 watt whites and 2-3 watt blues. Think that is enough for this size of tank?

Thanks for your input!

Edited by ksmart - October 25 2012 at 1:12pm

Im not sure of the exact dimensions either but the 14 is the only one I've seen people using on this cube. I'll have to look into your other suggestions though. Thanks for your input on the lighting as well. I have thought about running some ecoxotic stunners too but I figured if this other light would suffice I wouldnt mind trying it out. Here is the link

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVO-12-LED-Aquarium-Light-Nano-Marine-Coral-Reef-Cichlid-6x-3W-3-Watt-30-cm-/110963321422?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d5edea4e

so are all 4 strips whites? are there any pics of your tank I could check out? Thanks again!

Edited by ksmart - October 25 2012 at 3:44pm

Do you think it was even worth running it then?    

ps my little brother brought over some ecoxotic leds, the tank looked really good with them while running the stock 50/50 bulbs. Im just not sure If I feel like throwing that much down for supplements. If I go LED's I want to run only LED's...so may decisions lol

I looked at the LED fixture, you may want to check the lumen output there. It says 800 lumens. That leads me to believe they're either running below the max output (which is good) or they're running at the max output which means older, lower quality LEDs. You could actually build one that would work better for about the same price. I just built one for a 10 gallon using 4 white and 4 blue Cree leds on a switchable circuit and it cost less than what you'd pay for that one. It takes only about 2 hours to put together..