THE DIRTY SKIMMER "CUP" - lets all play along

How often do you clean your skimmer cup

  • every few days

    Votes: 56 21.2%
  • weekly

    Votes: 130 49.2%
  • bi-weekly

    Votes: 51 19.3%
  • monthly

    Votes: 12 4.5%
  • hardly ever

    Votes: 3 1.1%
  • automated drain/self cleaning

    Votes: 12 4.5%

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Day cinco de cup
 

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Day 5
 

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Day 5:
96hrs after clean

"48 hrs after biweekly 20% water change."

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Skimmer neck must be getting pretty nasty by now b/c I am only getting about 1/8"-1/4" of skimmate now.


Bubble King Mini 180
90 gal mixed Reef
30 gal Sump w/ Refugium
No GFO No Carbon
6 Clownfish, 4 Firefish Gobys, 3 Tangs, 1 Mandarin Dragonet, 1 Leopard Wrasse
1 cube of Rods Food mixed with Reef-Roids & Reef Chili & Amino's every other day.

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FTS as of 12-12-14 "Lit up like a Christmas tree"
 

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Day 5:
96hrs after clean

"48 hrs after biweekly 20% water change."

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Skimmer neck must be getting pretty nasty by now b/c I am only getting about 1/8"-1/4" of skimmate now.


Bubble King Mini 180
90 gal mixed Reef
30 gal Sump w/ Refugium
No GFO No Carbon
6 Clownfish, 4 Firefish Gobys, 3 Tangs, 1 Mandarin Dragonet, 1 Leopard Wrasse
1 cube of Rods Food mixed with Reef-Roids & Reef Chili & Amino's every other day.

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FTS as of 12-12-14 "Lit up like a Christmas tree"

Absolutely gorgeous tank!
 

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Day 5. I usually clean it by now it starts to smell sulfuric and nasty
 

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Last day, day 6 Saturday is my cleaning day and I really need to clean this bad boy. I might poor the good stuff into a bowl and get some pictures after a bit for tomorrow since I'll be all clean by then.
 

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Day 6

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I think Monday morning I will pour my skimmate in a measuring container so we can see the amount collected.

By the way, it smells to high heaven. I rinse my cup out at least twice a week. Pheew!
 

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Day 6
Sunday I will clean up the collection cup.
I rinse my cup out at least once a week.

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Ya im getting to overflow capacity here also and will tap out tomorrow but will get all the final nasty pics up along with it. Good week and seems this event was fun and very helpful.
Day 6
 

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Everyone is in luck, didn't do my Saturday routine due to side work offer I couldn't refuse today I'll have one more set of pictures along with the glory of the awfulness pictures as I clean. Stay tuned
 

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Got my hands in the tank today to add these...
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Again apologize for the camera phone pics. I do practice with my wife's canon today using some of the pic threads and think I may have figured some stuff out but I am a pre-novice with photography. Would upload those but she is taking pictures of our kids, 2 & 4, decorating cookies - my ocd was on overload so had to take a break.

Here it is:

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Day six - looks like it got a little bump from me being in there today.
 

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