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Old 05-13-2013, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by kien View Post
For me two 20% water changes two days in a row (on a weekend) and a third one the following weekend plus copious amounts of carbon replaced every other day is what it took me to get my skimmer happy again Chemiclean rocks but that stuff really lingers. It doesn't seem to bother anyone in the tank though.
+1 I have a drain to the sewer right next to my skimmer so I just let it overflow and drain until the skimmer removed enough of it that I could stop it from overflowing at the lowest setting. In effect using my skimmer to do a small water change.
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