So I upgraded the skimmer as an impulse great deal from a local reefer. It's an older Octopus pro with a sicce psk-2500 pinwheel pump. Its got an 8" reaction chamber and 4" neck and so far seems to be a beast. I'm pretty stoked about it. Between it and the turf scrubber(which is just starting to grow algae) I think I should have filtration all squared away. Now I can focus on lights and waterflow in the tank... one step closer. Here's a few more pics.