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Do not get me wrong. I agree one cannot over skim. Just did not realize that the skimmer "production" was weighted so heavily in in-organics. All of my posts thus far on the subject were of course poetic license and a tad of drama queen thrown in. All for the fun of eliciting discussion from...

Yes but after removing the water 29% of the solid left is organic and the rest is in-organic! Oh woe is me, oh woe is me.......

I emptied the skimmer cup last night. A lot of brown nasty in it. But now when I look at it I think it is a facade. I am wondering now ..... I am spending money on the skimmer and electricity to run it. I am spending money on ESV 2part to maintain calcium and alkalinity. I am spending money on...

The common assumption was the we pay big bucks to purchase and run a skimmer to remove TOC and it is removing mostly inorganic compounds. My whole world is crumbling..............I no longer have any faith in humanity...........oh the let down, oh the disappointment, oh the buzz kill!!!!!

" Conclusions The chemical/elemental composition of skimmate generated by an H&S 200-1260 skimmer on a 175-gallon reef tank over the course of several days or a week had some surprises. Only a minor amount of the skimmate (solid + liquid) could be attributed to organic carbon (TOC); about 29%...

I am a tad confused here. The article discusses TOC but not the elements I mentioned.

If you take in the skimmate it would be interesting to have them do a check on calcium, magnesium, and some other elements to see if the skimmer is actually taking out more of these than what is the normal concentrations we keep in our tanks, or natural seawater parameters.

Well I figured that, but was I correct?

During photosynthesis a plant absorbs water, carbon dioxide, and light energy, and produces glucose and releases the oxygen left over from the water. . Were you looking for photo-respiration here?

Coming along nicely Brent. One suggestion would be to get a new turkey baster for use only in the tank and blow the rock work off. Looks like from the pictures there is a lot of detritus on them and you should get this into the water column for removal by your filters.

Time and continued maintenance my friend. Siphoning the cyano at water change time too.

Thank you sir!

Hey sir. Long time. Have seen you pop in once in a while to stir things up. Nice to have you around. Not in Shelby, remember out here in New BaltimoreChesterfield. You doing alright? Got a tank going? Have not checked MR lately to see if you are up there or not.

Sony Cybershot Underwater.

Took some 3D pictures with the camera. What do you think?

So you were battling a HA outbreak before that you may have under some control now correct? Is your concern now the SPS coral PE and color or have I missed something else?

Mo' Definitely! Photosynthetically active Caribbean species. Probably Plexaura spp. or Pseudoplexaura spp. Playing catch with your pet in the new avatar?

Hee Hee, pretty hard to accomplish on a 29 biocube as the sump is in the tank behind the false back wall.

Or maybe you just did not go back to post #1035? Two sets of pictures posted here. One from outside the tank and one from underwater.

Thanx everyone. Flow is Rio 6hf return pump and a MP 10. Slice............