How's your skimmate?

[Madreefer]

I skim dry. Has anyone noticed a difference in how their tank is (water quality or appearance in corals) between skimming wet or dry?

[Marlin65]

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.

[whatcaneyedo]

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.

[Marlin65]

Originally Posted by Lance

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.