Reminder, keep up on maintenance!

[gmdcdvm]

I knew I had to clean out my skimmer collection cup, but I have been busy this week. Kept putting it off until today. This is what I saw when I opened my cabinet.

 

[Coral reefer]

You’re a bad reef keeper!

 

[Mr. Seahorse]

WoW! That's crazy!!!!!

 

[gmdcdvm]

That is only 6-7 days worth! I tend to do a slightly wet skimming.

 

[JVU]

At least you have the skimmer in the middle of the sump chamber so it doesn’t spill out and down the outside and through to the floor… theoretically speaking

 

[Darkxerox]

Nice coffee!

 

[PjFish]

Grande Frothachino!!

 

[SupraSaltyReefer]

You should looking to skimmate locker/collector. I can go weeks without emptying it.

 

[gmdcdvm]

You should looking to skimmate locker/collector. I can go weeks without emptying it.

I worry about stinking up the house keeping it around that long.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Yum!

 

[tribbitt]

Yum!

aeugh

I’m so glad my skimmer doesn’t deal with big tank stink. It just smells like ammonia and garden soil

 

[derek_SR]

Actually just cleaned mine - also smelled like garden soil, for the first time. Not unpleasant at all. Normally it reeks. I am curious if the oxolinic acid treatment changed the bacterial profile such that whatever makes the skimmer stink so bad was killed off.

 

[tribbitt]

Actually just cleaned mine - also smelled like garden soil, for the first time. Not unpleasant at all. Normally it reeks. I am curious if the oxolinic acid treatment changed the bacterial profile such that whatever makes the skimmer stink so bad was killed off.

hmmm… I never ran any antibiotics. Maybe it just never colonized my tank?

Reminded of that time I had to pick half-dried skimmate play-dough out of someone’s used skimmer. A customer brought it into the store and I drew the short stick to clean it. It didn’t smell thaaat bad, although i still kept upwind of it at all times

 

[Darkxerox]

hmmm… I never ran any antibiotics. Maybe it just never colonized my tank?

Reminded of that time I had to pick half-dried skimmate play-dough out of someone’s used skimmer. A customer brought it into the store and I drew the short stick to clean it. It didn’t smell thaaat bad, although i still kept upwind of it at all times

Having a strong spraying faucet makes it pretty easy (2 weeks of skimmate cleaned in 30s):

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Having a strong spraying faucet makes it pretty easy (2 weeks of skimmate cleaned in 30s):

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Ewwwwww
That’s that same sink for dishes?!
I use a common toilet brush to clean this mess, seems kinda appropriate
But far, far from my kitchen sink!
But that’s because there are no tanks in my house

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Side bar…
The gunk in these could be great plant fertilizer
I would be very interested in know the N, P, K

 

[derek_SR]

Side bar…
The gunk in these could be great plant fertilizer
I would be very interested in know the N, P, K

Yeah but what's the ratio.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Yeah but what's the ratio.

That IS the question…

 

[ReyDeFarts]

Side bar…
The gunk in these could be great plant fertilizer
I would be very interested in know the N, P, K

The added salt in that would have me worried over time. I use salt for weed killer solutions. It does not play nice with plants. I am not sure how much of the skimmate retains salt though.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

The added salt in that would have me worried over time. I use salt for weed killer solutions. It does not play nice with plants. I am not sure how much of the skimmate retains salt though.

IIRC
Fertilizers are “salts”
That said it would be diluted with H2O