MiddletonMark
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If it does turn out to be a bad idea ... just don't blame me 
Wet skimming
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Todd March
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Skimming wetter than I ever have, or ever imagined, has been really great for my system. My ER CS8-2 RC is oversized for my 90g net volume system, and I have it adjusted so that only about 1" of the top of the riser neck tube is available for foam production. I've really been impressed with this recirculating needlewheel skimmer's constant performance and ease of use.
This wet skimming produces a nice light skimmate, although the ZEOstart really makes it darker. Nothing like ZEOstart to kick the skimmer into overtime and make it pull so much more crude the skimmate is medium brown-green in color despite skimmming this wet. When I lay off the daily ZEOstart doses, the skimmate goes back to a light tea green color within 36 hours or so.
Since skimming this wet, and getting nutrients down to ZILCH, algae won't grow in my tank... It's great!
Heres a pic showing 38 hours worth of skimmate... The red arrow shows where the water level ends and foam productions starts:
This wet skimming produces a nice light skimmate, although the ZEOstart really makes it darker. Nothing like ZEOstart to kick the skimmer into overtime and make it pull so much more crude the skimmate is medium brown-green in color despite skimmming this wet. When I lay off the daily ZEOstart doses, the skimmate goes back to a light tea green color within 36 hours or so.
Since skimming this wet, and getting nutrients down to ZILCH, algae won't grow in my tank... It's great!
Heres a pic showing 38 hours worth of skimmate... The red arrow shows where the water level ends and foam productions starts:
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Todd March
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Yeah, but my tank is very lightly stocked at the moment (5 corals, 2 fish, one clam), and I do 10% WC's a week...
How stocked is your tank, Joe, to get that kind of skimmate...?
How stocked is your tank, Joe, to get that kind of skimmate...?
Todd March
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Hey Joe, I totally got that you weren't dissin' me... It's cool... :rollface:
I am confused though: are you saying you believe that the bio-load (in particular the fish load) of a system has no correlation to the activity and the resulting end production of the system's skimmer?
I am confused though: are you saying you believe that the bio-load (in particular the fish load) of a system has no correlation to the activity and the resulting end production of the system's skimmer?
Hef
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He's just saying that it doesnt matter whats in the tank relative to how Much gets skimmed out. It Does Make a difference with the color of the skimmate though. I skim similar to Joe, it's a light green color, sometimes darker than other times, but I also try to get about 1/2 gal. per day, but sometimes get a full gallon and the inevitable overflow into my stand.
You see that bubble column in Joe's is right at the overflow lip. When you do this you never get the foam coming over the edge, it's more like a drop at a time.
So Todd, I want to modify my CS8-2 to a RC Skimmer. Seen any good info on that. It seems like it would be pretty easy.
Hef
You see that bubble column in Joe's is right at the overflow lip. When you do this you never get the foam coming over the edge, it's more like a drop at a time.
So Todd, I want to modify my CS8-2 to a RC Skimmer. Seen any good info on that. It seems like it would be pretty easy.
Hef
MiddletonMark
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I would agree - that when I feed more/etc, the color of the skimmate is darker.
But I generally get about the same amount, skimming wet - whether when I had 6 fish in my tank or now with just a green clown goby. It just mostly looks like weak green tea now, with more fish was more like dark green wheat beer.
But I generally get about the same amount, skimming wet - whether when I had 6 fish in my tank or now with just a green clown goby. It just mostly looks like weak green tea now, with more fish was more like dark green wheat beer.
