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Old 07-14-2010, 05:10 PM
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Skim dry on the 210g Reef & wet on the 120g fowlr. I always scrub down the neck when I empty the collection cup anyways (usually every 4 days or so). Skimming dry is very stinky, especially since I added the NPX pellets to the reef tank. So nasty smelling I have to clean the cup before its full.

I hear ya. When I started the pellets the skimmate got much darker and smellier within a week. After a couple of months of running the pellets NO3 levels had dropped from 20 to 0. When the NO3 & PO4 levels were reduced the skimmate went back to normal. I'm assuming you will find the same thing after running the pellets for awhile and they do their job.
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Old 07-14-2010, 06:49 PM
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Dry skim on my Aqua Medic. Thick almost black skimmate, clean out once a week.
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Old 07-14-2010, 07:06 PM
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Here is mine this morning. 24H of production. A little wetter than normal because I fed Coral Frenzy after lights out last night.
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Old 07-14-2010, 07:39 PM
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Here is mine this morning. 24H of production. A little wetter than normal because I fed Coral Frenzy after lights out last night.
Forget Coral Frenzy! I figured you must have fed your fish a steak dinner to create that much waste!
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Old 07-15-2010, 12:37 AM
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I skim dry. Has anyone noticed a difference in how their tank is (water quality or appearance in corals) between skimming wet or dry?
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Old 07-15-2010, 12:45 AM
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I have almost no skim mate on my 75 running pellets. I clean maybe ones every three weeks. On my 150 I have a overflow canister I am about the same on that about three weeks both are dry skim.
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Old 07-15-2010, 12:48 AM
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Here is a weeks worth of what I generate. I skim dry because that seems to be the way my skimmer (PM Bullet 3) is meant to work.

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Old 07-15-2010, 12:51 AM
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I hear ya. When I started the pellets the skimmate got much darker and smellier within a week. After a couple of months of running the pellets NO3 levels had dropped from 20 to 0. When the NO3 & PO4 levels were reduced the skimmate went back to normal. I'm assuming you will find the same thing after running the pellets for awhile and they do their job.
When I started running my pellets after 2 weeks I have almost no skim mate but I had close to zero readings to begin with.
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