ozone and skimmers...question!

[infrared69]

my lfs said that once you hook ozone to your skimmer, you wont get anymore skimmate anymore? is this true? if so, where does the organic matter and protiens go?

ps, i am hooking a red sea 100 mg deluxe ozonizer to a asm g-3 skimmer on a 95g reef. and advice?

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

turnedmy skimmate black(from green/brown tea).....only been running for about 3-4 weeks, but my skimmate is about the same in quantity

 

[infrared69]

that is what i thought, the LFS just started running his ozone about 6 weeks ago, i think he either has to adjust the skimmer setting to skim wetter or maybe his 1985 oceanic skimmer doesnt work well with ozone.

to my knowlede ozone makes a skimmer run better pulling out more/darker skimmate. can anyone else confirm this?

 

[Billybeau1]

Yes my skimmate is darker than pre-ozone. You will have to adjust the skimmer as pumping ozone through the skimmer changes production. Takes some tweaking.

 

[zapata41]

i run ozone on my big skimmer and get a different kinda of skimmate. not a much as no ozone but with the ozone the skimate is a little wetter, once tuned to skim wet, but is also gets a nasty black sludge on the bettom of the collection cup.

Tim

 

[infrared69]

so are you happy running the ozone? do you feel it benifets your tank?

 

[Billybeau1]

Am I happy running ozone ? Yes, I believe the tank looks better. That said, I am not happy with my aquazone deluxe 100. Next time I buy a unit it will be a Sanders or Aquamedic.

 

[golfish]

It did slow down my Geo recirc skimmer and making adjustments helped. The problem is that when the ozone generator shut off the skimmer would overflow. I use an old berlin skimmer to feed ozone.

 

[Billybeau1]

From what I've been seeing, it would be better,if you have the room, to run the ozone through a seperate reactor, or skimmer.

If you have the room.

 

[infrared69]

i do have a css-65 i can run the ozone thru and just use the asm g-3 as a skimmer, maybe that would be my best option

 

[Ti]

ozone made my skimmer better

 

[infrared69]

Am I happy running ozone ? Yes, I believe the tank looks better. That said, I am not happy with my aquazone deluxe 100. Next time I buy a unit it will be a Sanders or Aquamedic.

what dont you like about th aquazone? i have the same unit and i love it.

 

[Billybeau1]

Well, I dont believe the ozone output on mine is as advertised. My tank rarely gets over 300 mv. It is producing some because I can smell it on top of the collection cup. My 100mg is cranked up to max. It may just be a defective unit. My water is crystal clear though. I quit worrying about it.

 

[Roland Jacques]

when you add ozone you have to adjust your skimmer for the defferance. i don't no if those old oceanic skimmers at your LFS are adjustable enough. i would not use one in a high flow skimmer (down darft- beckect..). a big needle wheel, air stone or venture skimmer would be best IMO. a large volume skimmer, something that would keep the ozone in the skimmer longer. the asm 3 would be ok IMO.

 

[infrared69]

i have been running ozone thru the CSS 65 for about a week now and it is working very well. i am gettting minimal skimmate but the tank looks great and my ORP hold right around 375mv. i only inject 25mg of ozone and it doesnt even run all the time. i think i will continure to use the CSS 65 and do the recirec mod to my G3 and run it as a straigt skimmer.