THE DIRTY SKIMMER "CUP" - lets all play along

[Rjramos]

Day 7 time to clean this nasty stuff í*½í¸Âí*½í¸‚
This amount of collection is consistent weekly. What do you guys think? Skimmer underrated or just right for my tank?

I think a drain that empties into a reservoir like many skimmers have is great to avoid any gunk from overflowing. In addition, IMO, it's not the amount of skimate produced in a week that determines proper application, but whether the skimmer has periods where it produces no skimate. Right?

 

[nicodim55]

I think a drain that empties into a reservoir like many skimmers have is great to avoid any gunk from overflowing. In addition, IMO, it's not the amount of skimate produced in a week that determines proper application, but whether the skimmer has periods where it produces no skimate. Right?

It never idles for me

 

[Rjramos]

This HOB model I picked up with a donated reef tank has not produced any skimate in a week on a 30 gal. All it produces is a lightly tinged wet skimate. No matter how much I adjust the air intake, it can't be set to produce a good dry skimate! And the bubbles going back into the tank! terrible, I don't like this design.

 

[sawdonkey]

I misses a few days while out of town, and wasn't able to tweak the skimmer, so it didn't produce like it normally would.

 

[Nurse Payne]

Day 7

 

[afamousjohnson]

And im tapped out. Had to wait for the wifey to go to bed so i could clean inside, and i still got busted.lol
Here is my final day 7 - was starting to stink up the place maybe i should look at cleaning more.

Was a fun time playing - will have to look back at my pics and skimmers and see their peak production days so i can work in a system off that of when i should be cleaning

 

[archaic37]

Day 7 pretty nasty

 

[tyler1503]

I was out of town yesterday so I missed day six. Doesn't really matter as the skimmer has stopped producing skimmate. It needs a good cleaning and it will be as good as new!
Day seven:

 

[drernesto]

don't think that I can tolerate the smell in my living room to play such game!

 

[drernesto]

6 Days

mmmmm... saw this live and its stinky!!!!

 

[rayn]

Here is day 7. Also why I don't normally go a week between empties, as it overflows and goes back into the tank.

 

[rayn]

Skimmer 2 day 7.

 

[Wiz]

One week. There it is

 

[kschweer]

Day 7

 

[ReeferIX]

Day 7:
168hrs after clean
7 full days of Skimmate!

"120 hrs after biweekly 20% water change"

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.

Clean and ready for a new week!

This fun and very informative.

 

[Chetrod]

Day 5

Day 7 nasty smelling stuff....

 

[Kyuss414]

I missed Day 7, Sunday, but here is Day 8 - 168hrs after cleaning (1 week exactly)

 

[Saltgator]

Just cleaned mine out earlier. Neck was super thick so no changes for pics. Added a jug to skim a bit wetter.

 

[maroun.c]

Day 7

And the consistency at the bottom of the cup

most of the thick sludge got sucked in the drain when I opened it so there was maybe 2-3 times this amount...
Was a fun game but no fun cleaning. we should create some animated gifs to show all those beasts filling up over 7 days.

 

[sawdonkey]

Cleaned it out tonight. Had a real stinker.