Cleaning my skimmer right now and on the inside of the cone there's some yucky stuff..... I thought it was build up but it turns out its green algae. Must be some good stuff in there it likes?
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Cleaning my skimmer right now and on the inside of the cone there's some yucky stuff..... I thought it was build up but it turns out its green algae. Must be some good stuff in there it likes?
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that skimmers can become a nitrate factory. Would that be considered a chemical reaction?Cleaning my skimmer right now and on the inside of the cone there's some yucky stuff..... I thought it was build up but it turns out its green algae. Must be some good stuff in there it likes?
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that skimmers can become a nitrate factory. Would that be considered a chemical reaction?
aside from me acting a smuck last night, i think its a good thread with useful info.I guess I'm like a moth drawn to the flame. I keep coming back.
In the spot it was growing it gets a little light from my scrubber.You mean it is growing there?
Does it get much light?
If it's a No3 factory I wish it'd do a better job. I can't register No3 for the life of me[emoji3]I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that skimmers can become a nitrate factory. Would that be considered a chemical reaction?
You mean from sludge on the skimmer neck degrading? Yes, that could release nutrients.
But if that same organic matter is just left in the system elsewhere, is it releasing any more (or less?) nutrients when in the skimmer neck than when floating around the tank?
Also I believe carbon reactors build up that same crud right? Mine does....I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that skimmers can become a nitrate factory. Would that be considered a chemical reaction?
Also I believe carbon reactors build up that same crud right? Mine does....
You need the yellow tang from Nemo that hugs the chest "my bubbles"Sometimes I just like to watch my skimmer make bubbles...bubbles make me happy...
I don't use any of those[emoji4]As in filtersocks too and foam baffles, pre filtered pumps.
Plus I employ thousands of these little polyps which eventually convert these nutrients to calcium. Stock it deep, skim it cheap (an airstone creates bubbles for cheap)....You mean from sludge on the skimmer neck degrading? Yes, that could release nutrients.
But if that same organic matter is just left in the system elsewhere, is it releasing any more (or less?) nutrients when in the skimmer neck than when floating around the tank?
I don't use any of those[emoji4]
You're very correct my friend, very very correct.Me either but in general some of the 11.000+ members that logged into this thread maybe do.
I don't carbon reactors either.
Would skimming a water with more doc increase the % of the organic matter in the skimmate? I mean, maybe the percentage of organics in the skimmate is not higher because we are careful in not adding too much organics to the tanks to begin with. With that said, I understand that there is a maximum of organics that a skimmer can remove from the water. Also, isn't some of those inorganic material bound to organic molecules? I understand that some of them actually helps to remove more doc, is that accurate? Would GAC also remove those inorganic molecules we see in the skimmate? Given the amount of solid material I see in my skimmate it appears that I would need a lot more GAC than what I use now. Is that a correct assumption?