Does humidity affect skimming performance?

[dirtyreefer]

Randy, not sure whether this is applicable to your forum or not, but I was wondering if the relative humidity of a room would affect the quality and quantity of skimmate. I could also see this is being a factor but not sure.

I live in Vancouver which ranges between 87-94% humidity. Do you think skimming would be less efficient than say a dryer place such as Vegas?

 

[steve the plumb]

I don't think so dirty.I to live in a humid climate.Its dry in the winter but vey humid come summer.My basement is now less than 30% humidity come summer the humidity goes up to 60-80% depending if I run an a/c unit skimmers seems to run the same.

 

[dirtyreefer]

Thanks for the response Steve, and good point about the difference between summer and winter humidity conditions.

 

[steve the plumb]

I see you are still trying to fix the skimmer.I think the pump is broken.Did the guy who sold it to you say anything about it?

 

[dirtyreefer]

Not trying to fix the skimmer since I am getting a new pump, however if the same thing happens again with this new pump then I was just seeing whether humidity could be an issue.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for now and hope it's just the pump. No the guy didn't mention anything about any problems, only boasted how great the skimmer worked for him.

 

[steve the plumb]

it might not be the skimmer?I have never gotten a dark nog from my skimmers.Its mostly green.I do get some gunk at the bottom and yes it smells.But as you had mentioned your other skimmer produced nog no matter what.I have my calerpa wich acts as a filter.I would maybe try to overfeed to see what the skimmer will do.If you follow regular water changes such as I your water might be clean?I am using carbon.I don't use much but I am trying to use the 1 cup per 90 gal of water.I still use lees than that but I will try to make a point of usning that amount just to see if I see a differance in water quality(bye eye)Did the guy who sold you the skimmer use ozone?This would have changed the performance issues for sure.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I agree that I don't think humidity will matter. The air inside and exiting a skimmer is likely near saturation regardless of the humidity going in.