Over skimming

by **pugo1** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:04 pm

nabasa ko to sa reefcentral na sagot ni Anthony Calfo about protein skimmate improvement. parang sinasabi nya na mahirap maoverskim ang isang tank.

"So with daily and systematic neuroticism, I micromanaged my greenhouse and made my skimmers (actually 6' DIY Nilsen style skimmers) work optimally. And what I saw happen was that in 240 gall tanks (20X)... most with single coral species... many getting no feeding at all (nearly fully autotrophic Xeniids, Briareum, etc)... and literally no fishes or only one per 240 gall (a copperband here for Sycon control... dragonet over there for acoel flatworms, etc)... I still got full cups of daily (coffee) dark skimmate! Simply amazing to see. And really just a matter of the gastropods grazing their daily diatom growth, and good water flow keeping their fecal pellets in suspension. Daily faithful supplementation (iodine, Vita-chem, Selcon) no doubt helped the diatoms continue to grow But my net daily import of nutrients was very small compared to what most folks today keep as fish and corals loads, feedings going in, sub par water flow in home aquariums, etc.

So I’m now converted... harping to you like those kind, mother hen experienced aquarists that harped at me.

When you see a 240 gallon tank that gets no food, has no fishes, monospecific for Xenia, and only dry sand and dry rock for substrates (no LR or LS for fear of bringing in pests, predators or nuisance algae)... and the tank still yields 4-8 oz of coffee dark skimmate (!), you'd be converted too"

eto yung link nung thread:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthrea ... genumber=1

by **Fugu** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:20 pm

Over skimming

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