I also agree you can very easily overskim your reeftank.I'd adjust your
skimmer so you only pull out very brown gunk not just brown water.I
personally am for adding additives daily for sum and weekly for others.As of
how much you should scale down your skimmer is trial and error.Some people
just run it a couple hours a week some every other day some 24/7.Its trial
and error to see how your tank responds to the different settings.If you
have a refugium which I don't think you do you probably would only have to
run it a couple hours a day or none at all.I personal run mine scaled back
to just pull thick brown gunk for 24/7.Most of the time it doesn't pull
anything at all anyway.I just keep it going for the air or oxygen content
reaction???Just my 2 cents.Ken.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Stiene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: RE: Overskimming?
> Larry,
>
> I am complete agreement that you can overskim. I have a 125 with one of
> Ron's skimmers also. I believe I have overskimmed my tank for a year. I
> was getting no coral growth,no coraline growth. Everything looked
stagnant.
> I spoke to Ron many times about the skimmer pulling water out and it
always
> has stated that is how it is supposed to run. But I started to look at
many
> other tank setups in my area. And every single person that has a skimmer
> was pulling out a very thick gunk with no water. Ron's skimmer would pull
> almost a 1/4gallon of brown water per day. So I finally decided to slow
it
> way down. And I have started to see a big difference after a few weeks.
> The skimmer is not filling up with water, but rather a brown gunk is
slowly
> building at the bottom of the collection cup at the top of the skimmer.
> After almost one week since I last cleaned it out, I have about 1/4" of
> brown gunk. This is comparable to how other skimmers run.
>
> Ron will not agree with this method, but I believe his pulling of more
water
> out with the skimmer is tied into his configuration of his tanks. For
> example, he has many fish, feeds alot, and does almost daily water
changes.
> So his bioload is very high. He also adds additives such as iodine and
> Vital Gold. I do not add any additives. So in his tank, the additives
may
> replace with his skimmer pulls out, where in my tank, the elements are not
> replaced until I do a water change. Anyways, this is my opinion and I am
> starting to feel I am on the right track.
>
> Joe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry J. Geguzis
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 11:54 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Overskimming?
>
>
> Hi,
> Anyone want to wade in (no pun) on the topic of whether or not a
> reef tank can be "overskimmed"? I have a 125 gal reef tank with over 300
> lbs of live rock, almost no sand, 20 gal sump, and one of Ron's Saltwater
> Heaven protein skimmers. It recently started cranking out mostly water
(and
> too much of that), so I thought I needed to change the airstones. Changing
> the stone didn't help, so until I could get to a LFS to get some advice, I
> shut it down. Since I have it shut off, (less than a week), my critters
and
> corals seem *healthier*. Colors are brighter, anemone bigger than before,
> and the soft corals are noticeably somehow looking better. Not something
> that's easily described (especially by a novice like myself). All the
> water quality tests pre and post are good. The question is: Am I cruising
> for a crash by only running the skimmer occasionally? (after I get it
> working, that is). When it WAS working it really did churn out some
> incredibly vile stuff. I had been running it 24/7. So, if the advice is to
> run it less than 24/7, how do I gauge how much to run it?
> All opinions gratefully accepted.
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
> "Never eat anything that you can't lift."
> Miss Piggy
>
>
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