Skimate colour

[vic622]

Is this a good color for skimate ?
The Remora has been set up for less than a week ...

Hay thats prity good for a Remora I would say most I have seen are a bit lighter in color than yours. Keep doing what your doing. got any pic's of the rest of your tank?

Bill

[vic622]

Originally Posted by bvlester

Hay thats prity good for a Remora I would say most I have seen are a bit lighter in color than yours. Keep doing what your doing. got any pic's of the rest of your tank?

Bill

I had a feeling it might not be too bad :

My tank build:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=55390
My Remora to Urchin DIY:
http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=61249

[imcosmokramer]

that is nice for a remora. my euro-reef pull mud.
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[hillbillyreefer]

That's about what I get from mine.

[burgerchow]

Hey Vic,

How many days of skim mate is that?
I think Remoras are the biggest over-rated p.o.s around. I've had one on my 55 corner bowfront fowlr tank for about 7 mos now. Never could get decent skimmate since setting it up. Best I could do is tea colored like yours. Even a prism or bak-pak skimmer pulls more out of the water. I've even had J&l check it out, and that's the way it's supposed to work. My Vertex in my reef pulls thick mud and I know it's doing it's job.
I don't know how people rate this skimmer as one of the best hob skimmers.

you can get it a bit better I sish the injector hole was smaller then you could get better skimm from it do not fiddle with the one that it comes with. My aqua medic T1000 multi skimms black mud or ink. Its realy stinky almost pay to the porcilin god when I clean it out almost every time. Had a cold the last couple times so good thing still could smell it.
My daughter will not use that washroom for and hour or two after.

Bill

[vic622]

Originally Posted by bvlester

you can get it a bit better I sish the injector hole was smaller then you could get better skimm from it do not fiddle with the one that it comes with. My aqua medic T1000 multi skimms black mud or ink. Its realy stinky almost pay to the porcilin god when I clean it out almost every time.

Eventhough this is only tea coloured, it is a bit raunchy smelling - I can imagine (Nah I don't want to) what a thicker skimate would smell like

Had a cold the last couple times so good thing still could smell it.
My daughter will not use that washroom for and hour or two after.

Bill

I don't think I want to have to have a cold every time I need to drain the brew

[vic622]

One of the problems I've run into is that size of the 1st chamber on my sump.

On the recommendation of a local reefer, and because of space limitations & wanting to have a 'fuge, I built my sump from a 29gal tank.
The 1st chamber is 5-1/2", which is too narrow for almost all in-sump skimmers.
Most are 6 to 6-1/2" at the narrowest and so I can't cram them into my sump.
The final chamber is bigger, @ 6-1/2", but its got the return pump and heater.

The other thing that is not so good is I didn't build the 1st chamber with an overflow partition - its an underflow/bubble-trap; translation the level fluctuates with evaporation - As I understand it, not so good for most in-sump type skimmers.

As it is, I ended up putting the skimmer body in the second chamber (3"), but it feeds/outputs in the 1st chamber.