Skimmer slowing down

[PaReeferJ]

I recently sold all my fish but a goby shrimp pair. My skimmer used to need emptied about once a week and now it really doesn't pull much of anything out. Could this be because I lightened up my bio load?

 

[CodyRVA]

Very likely, guessing you're feeding less as well correct?

 

[PaReeferJ]

Yeah the goby and shrimp eat chunks of scallops every couple of days. When I had all my fish I was feeding mysis once a day

 

[CodyRVA]

Yeah the goby and shrimp eat chunks of scallops every couple of days. When I had all my fish I was feeding mysis once a day

Its very possible thats why, could me mechanical, but I would guess its the low bio load. I just put a Skimz Monster on my 80g system, intended for 200G, at first i thought it wasn't working right, but i only have 3 fish, bio load is just wicked low, nothing to skim. Usually when i add amino acids, large quantities of foods, etc the skimmer picks up immediately. You can always do something similar to test yours.

 

[PaReeferJ]

Its very possible thats why, could me mechanical, but I would guess its the low bio load. I just put a Skimz Monster on my 80g system, intended for 200G, at first i thought it wasn't working right, but i only have 3 fish, bio load is just wicked low, nothing to skim. Usually when i add amino acids, large quantities of foods, etc the skimmer picks up immediately. You can always do something similar to test yours.

I will try that when I get home tonight