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View Poll Results: Running Your Skimmer F/time Or P/time?
24/7 365 55 93.22%
Some days a week 2 3.39%
Some hours a day 2 3.39%
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Old 12-28-2014, 06:54 PM
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Just curious if you all are running your skimmers 24/7 365 or anything less & why. What have you noticed if you have experimented with both?
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Old 12-28-2014, 07:53 PM
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Hey! I never "LEFT" the hobby, just doing fresh water now. Which is still listed as part of Canreef if I'm not mistaken.
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Old 12-28-2014, 08:03 PM
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I read somewhere that you can only skim out approx a third of the organics at any given time.So full time will skim more at the end of the day.
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What he said. I have very high bioload so I would do 36/7 365 days if I could Actually modding a much bigger skimmer this week to upgrade to a dual pump cone from my excellent Deltec Recirc skimmer that pulls out a full container of nasty dark skimmate every 5 days.
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I answered 24/7 however, my skimmer shuts down for 10min 3 times a day during feeding mode via my digital aquatics controller so i guess it's 23.5/7
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Although I don't know why people would run less than 24/7, I expected more votes on that line.
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I skim at night. It was part of my zeo schedule. Not sure if it really made a difference as I never really noticed my skimmer doing much during lights on. I do dose bentonite and foz down but dose it as soon as lights go out
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Although I don't know why people would run less than 24/7, I expected more votes on that line.
Wow, something almost everyone agrees on lol
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Old 01-03-2015, 07:18 AM
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I voted for number two just so it feels better , no one wants to be left out
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Is there a reason why you wouldn't skim 24/7?
The oceans work 24/7 so why would our skimmers not?
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