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Old 09-18-2010, 12:00 PM
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So, just wanted to update everyone. I'm starting to be not so impressed. The skimmer is not really skimming all that much skimmate, or with any consistency. The production of skimmate has not changed since the beginning, when it was supposedly breaking in. The skimmate is also very watery. I took it apart two days ago and cleaned it out. Disassembled the pump, only t discover that the meshwheel was looking pretty unhealthy (frayed out and thinning). I replaced it with the spare needlewheel, which I don't think I should have to do yet, by the way, and it did not really improve the situation.

I'm running this on a 50 gallon sps tank with 2 anthias, a yellow tang, 2 ocellaris clowns and a royal gramma. I feed a small amount of thawed and drained frozen food once a day. Is that enough bioload/doc to support this size of skimmer? Do you think it might be just oversized? It's the nac6a model with the wider neck - could that be the source of the problem? Is the neck too wide, you think?
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