Skim mate color?

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I have heard that different color of skimmate will indicate whether the skim is wet or dry. Lighter color brown wil be wet, darker brown dryer. Well my skim has been a light green the past two days and I know it's wet but I haven't heard of the green skimmate.
I've been feeding frozen brine and Mysis shrimp along with San Francisco marine cuisine frozen.
I have a mix of clowns, a blenny, goby,wrasse Cardinals, and royal gramma nd Chromis. I also have some frags and a BTA
I feed once a day. The tank is a 45 gal JBJ with a Coralvue IceCap K2 50 skimmer.
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skimmate will be all sorts of different colors depending on the aquarist's actions.

green, brown, black, etc. it is perfectly normal.
 

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Dark green here when I settles in the cup. A green brown foam
 
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Ah thanks Russ265. I was begging to worry. I don't get a lot of skim and that maybe ( at least I think) that because I have a piece of polyfilter sitting in back of the overflow to quiet the noise before it hits the skimmer. Will be changing that when the skimmer goes down below
 

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Weird as my nyos is always brown but my other skimmers are always green? Is one skimming better?
 

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