Marine Depot Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Show us your skimmate!Post a photo of your skimmate in the comments below. Let's see who's got the nastiest collection cup!!!(pictured here: Aquamaxx Aquariums ConeS CO-1 Protein Skimmer) __________________ Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Love my PLS-50 Cad Lights Pipeless Nano Skimmer PLS-50 by J.L Photography, on Flickr Link to comment
xzeror Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 quick question... how do you guys do a deep cleaning on your skimmers? Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 quick question... how do you guys do a deep cleaning on your skimmers? I only do deep cleaning every now and again, every week or so I just spatula the inside of the neck to remove layers of gunk to keep up with the efficiency. For deep cleaning, I clean under hot water with a tooth brush to remove algae and etc, then soak in water/vinegar bath. 24 hours, remove, rinse, soak in RO 12 hours, then let dry... Link to comment
CrazyEyes Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 An Eshopps PSK-75 on our nano. http://s27.photobucket.com/user/DrftNme/media/DSC_0168_zpsbeebc6e3.jpg.html'> An i-TECH 200 on my 75, just got cleaned and getting going again. http://s27.photobucket.com/user/DrftNme/media/DSC_0269_zps3a9000fa.jpg.html'> Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Mines getting there. Looking pretty nasty! Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 11, 2014 Author Share Posted July 11, 2014 Love my PLS-50 Cad Lights Pipeless Nano Skimmer PLS-50 by J.L Photography, on Flickr We got great results with this skimmer. Before we , it's what we used in our 38 gallon Nuvo in the office. Next we are setting up a 70-gallon Artisan II from CAD Lights in our break room. We'll document the build on YouTube like we did the SR-80. Hope you'll follow along! An Eshopps PSK-75 on our nano. An i-TECH 200 on my 75, just got cleaned and getting going again. Yuck... and not so yuck. lol quick question... how do you guys do a deep cleaning on your skimmers? Here's an article we wrote about that a while back you may find useful: http://kb.marinedepot.com/article.aspx?id=11041 Link to comment
CrazyEyes Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 I should have mentioned, the i-TECH has a drain that goes into a separate container, and I'm also skimming a little on the wet side so it doesn't look like it's pulling as much vs someone skimming dry. Link to comment
Jackal_Knight Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 (pictured here: Aquamaxx Aquariums ConeS CO-1 Protein Skimmer)[/size] __________________ Bwaaaah that's the skimmer I wish I could have, how do u guys like it. Here my skimmer cup from an sca-301 Link to comment
NorthGaHillbilly Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Heres my nastyness, I end up with this every 10 day Link to comment
Horerczy Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 The nastyness that is my Reef Octopus BH-90. Note the pods in the skimmate. I have no idea how they keep getting up there. They're dead BTW. I run my skimmer really low so a lot of gunk actually accumulates in the cone before the neck. The lid is sadly about the cleanest part. The light penetration is surprisingly quite poor. Which is wierd because this skimmate is actually quite wet. Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 Bwaaaah that's the skimmer I wish I could have, how do u guys like it. We love the CO-1! It's really quiet. One of our local customers, Nik, actually sent us that image. Link to comment
GHill762 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Not the dirtiest I've ever had, but I'd say that's about average.. plus it was the only pic I have uploaded The skimmer is a Bubble Magus Curve 5 that I got from Marine Depot back in like September or October during my tank build.. http://s1073.photobucket.com/user/GHill762/media/20140104_092338_zps73b0af55.jpg.html'> Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 Not the dirtiest I've ever had, but I'd say that's about average.. plus it was the only pic I have uploaded The skimmer is a Bubble Magus Curve 5 that I got from Marine Depot back in like September or October during my tank build.. Thank you for choosing MD! You know, compared to some of the other skimmate photos reefers have shared with us, this is actually not THAT gross. Still gross, but not downright nasty. The skimmer looks like it's working wonderfully! Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 15, 2014 Author Share Posted July 15, 2014 Yum I like my coffee the way I like my skimmate. Oh wait, no I don't. Link to comment
GHill762 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Thank you for choosing MD! You know, compared to some of the other skimmate photos reefers have shared with us, this is actually not THAT gross. Still gross, but not downright nasty. The skimmer looks like it's working wonderfully! well, the neck/cup had just been cleaned in the photo, the neck is almost always caked in tar.. and of course I went with MD, best in the biz Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 and of course I went with MD, best in the biz We like this man with the mustachioed fish. Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 yummmmm https://flic.kr/p/nVfDr9'>https://flic.kr/p/nVfDr9'>Untitled by https://www.flickr.com/people//'>xMrKleinReef, on Flickr Link to comment
Marine Depot Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 yummmmm Now THAT'S nasty! Link to comment
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