Does a skimmer remove saltwater?

[MarkoD]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Nitrates should be zero.

Not convinced you can "dial" in a fuge to control nitrates at all. I know it's there to assist removal but any visible reading if nitrate is direction relation to what we do.

A skimmer an fuge won't change the need for water changes at regular intervals. Maybe that's why you have nitrate, cause again, the reading should be 0.

Good luck.

well i went from about 10ppm nitrates a month ago, to it being 0ppm nitrates.

and the only thing i changed was i added cheato, increased flow in refugium and keep the lights on for 22hours a day.

no water change in that time and the nitrates magically dropped