robrich342
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Can you over skim a reef system ?
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hahnmeister
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Yes. Either by removing more nutrients in the water than what you intend for the inhabitants, or by skimming until you cant skim anymore (the foam head in the skimmer cant hold itself together well)... the two can often happen together.
Well let's see, if the scrolls that i've read are authentic then the best skimmer designs are not more than 90% efficient and since we all know how variable skimmer performance is than it would stand to reason that it's impossible to overskim since we can't skim 100% of that tanks organic load. If we could then we could stop the nitrogen cycle with some fancy skimmer that would remove all or 100% of the tanks organic load before the nitrifing bacteria could break it down into ammonia. Sooooo whether you spend 100 or 1000 bucks your not going to take all the organics out of a tank.
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