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Thanks Denny that's a long read but very good
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You said that skimming removes about as much bacteria as a water change, which really isn't the case. It sounded like you didn't understand how skimming worked.
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A skimmer can only remove bacteria from the water column, same as just removing the water. Bacteria adheres to surfaces significantly more than the water itself thus removing the water or skimming heavier will not diminish a bacteria population period. This applies to carbon dosing or zeo, over skimming has no negative effects on a bacteria population, even if you're dosing it provided you dose downstream. So my point was when over sizing a skimmer to your bio-load the risk relates to removing excess essential elements such as potassium not bacteria. Make sense yet?
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Disagree, if for some reason I wanted to remove bacteria from the water column I could change 100% of the water which would be far more effective than what a skimmer could do. Ultimately changing a given amount of water on a certain frequency would compare directly to what a skimmer would accomplish, same as removing any organics. But that's all pointless information irrelevant to anything we're talking about here, the comparison was only made based on the common misconception large water changes are harmful because they remove beneficial bacteria, so I was making the same comment relating to large skimmers...
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Here's my take on that. I don't care at all about any bacteria in water, so if it's there or not, makes no difference. The amount free in the water column is insignificant, so let the skimmer take out however much it wants.
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