Skimmer Gunk

[luvnluk]

What color is the waste in your skimmer? I recently reinstalled my protein skimmer and what used to be brown is now bright green. Normal?

 

[bang guy]

mine is a nasty brown/grey.

 

[rbmount]

Have you or are you feeding some kind of phytoplankton?

 

[luvnluk]

I feed a variety of foods, including, Seaweed Salad....could that be it?
That's really the only food that is green.

 

[armageddon]

Rotten brown liquid and a smell that goes along with the color.

 

[luvnluk]

Mine used to be rotten and brown, which seems to be normal. However, now that I have moved, it's bright green. Things that are different, include - larger tank space, less ambient light & new yellow tang. I guess it must be from the additional herbivore type foods that I'm feeding my YT.

 

[007]

Same topic with a twist . . . . does skimmate contain salt? If not it would do WONDERS for my bonsai . . . .
somebody taste it . . . . come on . . . . I'll give ya a dollar

 

[bang guy]

It has a similar salinity as that of seawater.

 

[luvnluk]

What is skimmate???

 

[bang guy]

The waste produced by Foam Fractionation.