How's your skimmate?

[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.