flameangel88
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How do you clean YOUR skimmer?
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javajaws
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10901201#post10901201 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pikachusalad
Gross. Would you suggest scooping the cat boxes and picking up the dog poop with my hands too?
Somehow it is psychologically different when you can see the stuff being deposited directly. When cleaning the skimmer your inner self says "It just came from a bunch of bubbles!" and that in itself somehow makes it OK!
Now I typically don't go and eat finger food immediately after...
Love the topic.
I have 2 ASM skimmers:
- big can be disassembled to reach by hand with a brush for tough deposits. It could be cleaned by running the warm vinegar for may be half of hour, but the skimmer is big and I have no place to set it with a lot of vinegar, alas;
- small, Mini, can't be disassembled, the taper is glued - now it sits dirty on the deck without use, until I find somewhere solution for a cleaning in narrow spaces. Bottle brush is too weak for removing bryopsis...
Small Visi-Jet - bottle brush, easy;
Lee's large CC skimmer - long bottle brush, but it's pain in the neck to clean the small hole at the bottom;
Tunze nano DOC - brush is supplied by manufacturer, nice touch.
Cups - by new piece of sponge or baby bottle brush, whatever is closer.
I have 2 ASM skimmers:
- big can be disassembled to reach by hand with a brush for tough deposits. It could be cleaned by running the warm vinegar for may be half of hour, but the skimmer is big and I have no place to set it with a lot of vinegar, alas;
- small, Mini, can't be disassembled, the taper is glued - now it sits dirty on the deck without use, until I find somewhere solution for a cleaning in narrow spaces. Bottle brush is too weak for removing bryopsis...
Small Visi-Jet - bottle brush, easy;
Lee's large CC skimmer - long bottle brush, but it's pain in the neck to clean the small hole at the bottom;
Tunze nano DOC - brush is supplied by manufacturer, nice touch.
Cups - by new piece of sponge or baby bottle brush, whatever is closer.
LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
The rest of the skimmer doesnt really get dirty. The lower body is made from black acrylic so no algae or anything in there. I skim wet, so all the nasty stuff ends up in the cup. I barely have to clean the neck. IMO that is the stuff that you are supposed to be collecting in the cup, if its building up on the neck you are running the head too low. But thats just my opinion.
down and outman
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Take a garden hose to it. Quick and easy. Easy way to clear the drain tube as well.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10901201#post10901201 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pikachusalad
Gross. Would you suggest scooping the cat boxes and picking up the dog poop with my hands too?
I use my hands. Scooping cat boxes with bare hands is a little much and dog poop can give you subcutaneous larval migrants so it's not really the same thing
Of course I get plenty of dog and cat poop on my hands anyway
Chris
pikachusalad
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I guess with a 75 lb dog, nearly 50 lbs of cats (2), the aquatic life, and 2 kids in diapers, I get my fair share of poop on my hands...so...if given the choice...even if it is the least gross and dangerous of all the poop I deal with...AND even considering I'm right there at the sink and could have it rinsed off in seconds...I would have gladly paid ten times the $2.99 the brush cost me to avoid PURPOSELY touching poop with my bare hands - but that's just me. :strooper: Now...if you'll excuse me, I have to go fish Thomas the train out of the toilet...:rollface:
michaeljames
New member
hmmm this thread has got me thinking.... I wonder if the collection cup on my ASM is dishwasher safe? if my girl found out I put in there she would probably shove me in there too....
yellowwatchmen
In Memoriam
I use my hand do get the thick build up. Then i use a wash rag to rest.
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