How's your skimmate?

[PoonTang]

I think Lance skims wet so that he has a larger volume of Facial Nog that he can sell. Kinda like waterin' down his Booze

[Lance]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

I think Lance skims wet so that he has a larger volume of Facial Nog that he can sell. Kinda like waterin' down his Booze

Don't tell my customers that! They're very happy with my cheaper prices.

[tony_3a]

Originally Posted by bignose

I also have a euroreef skimmer and just like zoaElite said it's very dark skim with nasty sludge in the neck.

Exact same for me, about a cup full every 4 days and its really really thick and stinky. (euroreef as well)

[hound96]

mine is fairly dark and wet in my vertex IN100 and i clean it out once a week at about a third full

my aqua medic skims very dark and nasty stuff so dry my ETSS is not as dark or half as nasty but I empty the cup once a week on both. I like the Aqua Medic better I don't get any algae in the tank when I use it but with the ETSS I get some HA growth on one rock and no where else, kind of weird I'd say.

Bill

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

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.

[SAMSHUNG]

I own a Red Sea Prizm. Consequently, I get no skimmate.

[delo978]

Well with my remora my only option is wet skimate....but I don't mind cause it's too easy to replenish what you've lost with wet skim. On the same note I haven't moded my remora yet with a "2/4L" bottle, anyone done that yet. I just want to make sure I don't crack the skimatecup when I drill out a hole for a flow tube.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by SAMSHUNG

I own a Red Sea Prizm. Consequently, I get no skimmate.

Haha, thanks for the laugh I would more accuratly state that "You get no skimmate in the cup as it all overflows onto your carpet".

Red Sea should just stop building skimmers.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

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.