How's your skimmate?

[viperfish]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

Here is mine this morning. 24H of production. A little wetter than normal because I fed Coral Frenzy after lights out last night.

Forget Coral Frenzy! I figured you must have fed your fish a steak dinner to create that much waste!

[Madreefer]

I skim dry. Has anyone noticed a difference in how their tank is (water quality or appearance in corals) between skimming wet or dry?

[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.