I’m gonna run it for a few days, probably till Saturday and then remove it and place it back in my sump. But turned off. I don’t think your supposed to run it full time. I need to add more pods to my system and don’t need them getting trapped in it! That and I don’t care for the look of it in my display. Hopefully it does a good job! I don’t run a skimmer or anything else. I’ve also determined this pump will make a good back up incase my main return pump goes out. I may try and run it monthly or randomly when it seems the crud is building upI really want to do it, to try it out and see how well it works. BUT - I really don't want to add another thing to maintain.