Too Much Skimming?

Not skimming over a short time will cause a great reaction in most corals, until it teeters off the "edge of no return" when everything builds over time..

As much NASTY sludge as my skimmer pulls, I wouldn't dare remove it for more than a week..

Just because test kits show 0 doesn't make it so.. Pretty much everything can consume nitrates,phosphates and all that jazz giving a false reading..
I've seen tanks being over run with HA and Cyano and their kits all read 0ppm
 
blu_devl_06;518377 wrote: how about ya'll just come look at my system and tell me it's not healthy...

Like I said it works for some and not for others. How about you come and frag most of my sps colonies before they break off and fall over again. Oh yea bring your water since mine has been through the skimmer and is probably really gross. :)
 
IMO the chances of something going wrong without skimming are far greater than something going wrong WITH skimming :)
 
I would reccomend looking up Joe's tank (sailfish). If you can get growth and colouration like that without a skimmer, then you are definately onto something!

As has been mentioned in this thread, just take a look at the gunk your skimmer pulls out; even the worst skimmer pulls out some nasty stuff. If you're not skimming, then that funk is still in your aquarium.
 
skimmers haven't been around forever... there ARE ways to set it up I would assume.. but I would think that it would increase maintenance...
 
To have a good success rate without a skimmer, a lot of times it will up the maintenance routine to help balance out the effect of removing the waste..
 
Rbredding;518555 wrote: skimmers haven't been around forever... there ARE ways to set it up I would assume.. but I would think that it would increase maintenance...


Neither have successful reef tanks..
 
Here is a link to a study that Ken Feldman concerning skimmer performance. There has been debate about his data but I will let you make that decision. The study basically showed that the most TOC's that any skimmer would pull out of his system was around 35%. I'm not sure what else was removed with that skimmate but I think that was actually going to be analyzed. But to answer your original question concerning over skimming, I'm not sure we know at this point at what % of TOC removal is considered over skimming. I personally run one 24/7 but I have an extremely high bio load.
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Doesnt a skimmer help to oxygenate the water? That's a plus that shouldn't be overlooked, especially as water temperatures climb in the summer. (For those of us without chillers anyway)
 
Rbredding;518583 wrote: we get it... you sell skimmers....

:D


Na, just stating fact. This hobby is uber young. It wasn't very long ago where keeping sps corals was unheard of. Now it's common place. What's changed?
 
Skriz;518639 wrote: Na, just stating fact. This hobby is uber young. It wasn't very long ago where keeping sps corals was unheard of. Now it's common place. What's changed?

??

dunno....



Skimmers?
:D
 
Skriz;518639 wrote: Na, just stating fact. This hobby is uber young. It wasn't very long ago where keeping sps corals was unheard of. Now it's common place. What's changed?
Bredding wrote: ??

dunno....



Skimmers?
:D

Better skimmers.
 
Skriz;518639 wrote: Na, just stating fact. This hobby is uber young. It wasn't very long ago where keeping sps corals was unheard of. Now it's common place. What's changed?

Skimmers and
lighting, more live rock,less bio balls,GFO.zeolites,carbon dosing,calcium reactors,kalkwasser,activated carbon,more suitable circulation,filter socks,sulfur denitrators,better salt mixes, rodi units,aquaculture and overall husbandry skills and knowledge improved.
 
grouper therapy;518679 wrote: Skimmers and
lighting, more live rock,less bio balls,GFO.zeolites,carbon dosing,calcium reactors,kalkwasser,activated carbon,more suitable circulation,filter socks,sulfur denitrators,better salt mixes, rodi units,aquaculture and overall husbandry skills and knowledge improved.


yeah.. .


skimmers..

:D
 
Rbredding;518555 wrote: skimmers haven't been around forever... there ARE ways to set it up I would assume.. but I would think that it would increase maintenance...

No, but the term "old tank syndrome" has pretty much vanished from our terminology with the advent of skimming. It used to be very common for systems a year old or so to crash with no obvious explanation. When the Berlin method (live rock + protein skimming) came along, that pretty much went the way of the Dodo.
 
check this article out it is the skim mate analysis . It appears that all that nasty stuff isn't all nasty stuffhttp://www.advancedaquarist.com/2010/2/aafeature/view?searchterm=
 
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