Part time skimming?

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Howdy,

For those whom use skimmers do you run them 24/7 or just on a part time schedule?

I have hooked up a coralife super skimmer on my cube, and although it is finicky and a pain in the ass as it is breaking in, it is allready starting to pull some nasty gunk out of the tank (just cycling with some semi-cured LR right now)

What I am trying to determine is if it will be effective if I only run it for a couple hours in the evenings.

- the new tank is in our bedroom (It's really time to get out of condo life and buy a house with more space) and #1 it is loud as heck, #2 I'm just worried out leaking/overflowing and wouldrather run it in the evenings when I am here to "watch" it.


Thanks in advance for any comments, suggestions, prior experiences, etc.



Greg