protein skimmer question

aedeos

Member
my skimmer has been leaking lately. I just added salt and then sand, so there's a lot of stuff around the water. I've turned down the water flow in and that seems to fix the problem, but is that how it should normally be? Or should it be flowing at full power?
 

aedeos

Member
also, would it be bad for me to turn the skimmer off overnight? This tank was just started and I just added bio-spira and live sand. I've been draining the skimmer basin and I don't want to be throwing out a ton of key things.
 
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