Amount of Skimate
 

Just looking for some opinions on this.

I recently bought a used Rena XP3 canister filter for my 33gallon sumpless tank. I am using it to increase flow as well I have the return T-ed off to a phosphate reactor. Before I had a smaller canister filter and had a simmilar set up on the same tank. I use a Remora HOB skimmer and have seen a noticible decrease in the amout of skimate (sp?) that I am getting now that I am using the larger canister filter. I am running 2/3rds of a cup of carbon that is changed every 3 weeks in the canister filter, and that is it. I was running the same amount of carbon in the smaller canister filter before.

So why is the protien skimmer pulling less stuff out of my water?

Ted.

have you cleaned out the skimmer? i know that the air intake, once cleaned improves my skimmer. and i clean inside the skimmer where the collection cup sits, usually lots of black skimmate.

Skimate
 

I clean the air intake on a weekly basis, but have not given the rest of the skimmer a full cleaning for a month or two.

Ted.