protein skimmer & water changes
- Thread starter grandmarm
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essop3
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wow, that is alot of skimate. You may have your skimmer adjusted too wet. But to answer your question you still need to do water changes.
salty cheese
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IMO I would say yes, that's only about 2 gals per week. What is your salintity at? The skimmer pulls out saltwater and you are only replacing it with fresh.:thinking:
grandmarm
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protein skimmer is a home made job, we bought the whole system used. The protein skimmer is very hard to adjust it so that it runs dryer but works great. We recently added the ro/di filter and the water is very clean now except for the red slime which we cannot get rid of.
As far as the salt goes, what should that be at? lots of live live and a few corals with 4 fish.
As far as the salt goes, what should that be at? lots of live live and a few corals with 4 fish.
salty cheese
Active Member
Originally posted by grandmarm
As far as the salt goes, what should that be at?
IMO 35 ppt. Have you checked your salinity lately? The reason I'm asking is if the skimmer is pulling out saltwater and you are replacing it with just freshwater your salinity is going to be really low.
