Protein skimmer

[Danny91]

Hi

I've had a fluval ps2 mini in my tank and was just wondering if I have it set right? The skim you see in the cup is from 24 hours. Is this to much water?

 

[Danny91]

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[Rover88]

Depends on if you are trying to skim 'wet' or skim 'dry'. If that was produced in 24 hours, you are doing very close to what I do in 24 hours.

 

[Danny91]

What's lathe difference to a wet and dry skin. Sorry I'm new to the hobby.

 

[mcgyvr]

Too wet IMO..
I personally shoot for filling the cup no more than once a week if that in my skimmers..
I get brown/black thick stanky coffee skimmate but it can take a bit to get to that..

 

[Rover88]

'Wet' skim is a lighter skim, like tea. Kinda what you have.

'Dry' skim is still technically wet, it just means that there is more material and less water. As mcgyvr said, it can be thick and dark like coffee.

If your tank is new and there is not much actual stuff to skim out, you may not be able to easily get dry skim. I empty my skimmer every 2-3 days.

 

[Uncle99]

Dry skim is more DOC less water and dependson the amount of DOC in your water.
So, in English, you would like to get that deeper greedy browny thicker and very smelly stuff from the water.

Wet skim is of course the opposite, less DOC, more waster so you get a lighter less thick skim. Sometimes I get wet skim if I have used to much expoxy.

Yours looks a bit on the wet side to me, but that's just in relation to mine, If you changed the water a lot, the DOC would be lower and less skim...

 

[Danny91]

How would I begin to get a dry skin. That sounds like it takes more nasty from the water?

 

[mcgyvr]

How would I begin to get a dry skin. That sounds like it takes more nasty from the water?

Lower the level in the skimmer so the bubbles dont get as high as fast

 

[homer1475]

It's a nano skimmer, you'll more then likely never get "dry" skimmate. The best you'll get is a stinky tea colored skimmate.

Unfortunately nano skimmers don't have enough space in them for the bubbles to have a very long contact time, that's why you'll never get "dry" skimmate.

 

[Danny91]

Thank you all for your input I appreciate it.

 

[Uncle99]

Still, keep making very small lowering adjusts until you can get the darkest crap possible