Skimmers, Sterilizers, & Reactors
Setting up a high end reef aquarium often requires the use of a small warehouse of gadgets to help make maintaining the water quality at the highest standards possible. Protein skimmers, UV sterilizers, and calcium reactors are all examples of some of these devices. Not all of these devices are absolutely necessary for a reef aquarium and certainly not for a fish only saltwater aquarium, but they all do serve very important functions if used and set up correctly. Using these devices will allow a reef keeper to house corals that in years past would have been deemed impossible to keep.