How's your skimmate?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

I skim fairly wet...for the same reason Lance....I dislike cleaning out sludge. I get about 4 cups of skimmate a day when I have it set where I like it...



..... but my "Otto" top off is lazy and the skimmate isn't always as wet as I'd like

Yeah, I get about 3-4 cups a day on the Beckett, but I have a large waste collector so I only have to empty it every 4th day.
Hey, it's summer, "Otto" can slack off a bit.

[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.

[Marlin65]

Originally Posted by 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.

I did that on mine when I ran one just use a dull drill bit and go slow you want to melt your way through.

[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.

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by SAMSHUNG

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

I have a Red Sea Prism on my 29 and it works good for this size of tank. Granted I havn't tried any other brands but I get quite a bit of skimmate.

I empty my cup every 3 days or so and its certainly not wet , certainly not of the weak stomach!

[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.