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Like I said you can turn off the skimmer or run a reverse cycle. To be honest, skimming doesn't help a whole lot unless you are skimming wet. It does help with dissolved organic compounds and some po4. But mostly beneficial with oxygenation.So to be clear, by increasing nutrients you mean letting the nitrates get higher? Or what nutrient levels am I raising? And I should continue to skim?
Your no3 is already 20, so it's not a concern. If you want to get a head start you need to target po4 with either frozen foods(without rinsing) or particulate foods like reef frenzy or reef-roids. You can also dose potassium phosphate made by brightwell or seachem. If you choose to dose, your target po4 would be 0.10ppm. Going that high would result in GHA but since you have a foxface and a blenny, this would provide some food.
herbivores tend to peck naturally, so it's not uncommon. Also, shouldn't be seen as them wanting to eat this stuff. The goal here is to keep dinos from becoming toxic and then inadvertently killing your fish from consumption.My lawnmower blenny is going to town on what he can find on my equipment and rocks.