Skimmer Foam Photo Thread

Daniel@R2R · Jan 28, 2020

What does that crusty froth look like bubbling up on top of your skimmer? Let's see that beautiful head of disgusting refuse! Post up your photos of rootbeer float in here with extra points if it's bubbling over the top of your cup! The bigger the head, the better!!

Greybeard · Jan 28, 2020

Weird folks around here. Why on earth would anyone want to photograph skimmate?

Yuck.

Oh, what the heck

Vertex Omega 180i. Tank hasn't been running long enough to really be dirty yet.

S.Pepper · Jan 28, 2020

Daniel@R2R said:
What does that crusty froth look like bubbling up on top of your skimmer? Let's see that beautiful head of disgusting refuse! Post up your photos of rootbeer float in here with extra points if it's bubbling over the top of your cup! The bigger the head, the better!!

Too bad u didn't ask this question yesterday. I cleaned my skimmer last night... and yeah, it was a beautiful thing. (sarcasm)

Waynerock · Jan 28, 2020

I love chasing my wife around with a dirty skimmer cup. She starts gagging and almost throwing up she cant handle bad smells. then my 6 year old son will get a deep wiff of it right in front of her and she almost pukes! ah its the little things. She cant handle the smell of LRS either its great. How would y'all describe the skimate smell though? Mine has a distinct sulfur low tide at the garbage dump musk, its quite invigorating

Terri Caton · Jan 28, 2020

Waynerock said:
I love chasing my wife around with a dirty skimmer cup. She starts gagging and almost throwing up she cant handle bad smells. then my 6 year old son will get a deep wiff of it right in front of her and she almost pukes! ah its the little things. She cant handle the smell of LRS either its great. How would y'all describe the skimate smell though? Mine has a distinct sulfur low tide at the garbage dump musk, its quite invigorating

I've been around beaches that were being dredged. Smells just like that.

Tip: GREAT use for skimmate. I started a super simple pod propagation. Tank water, skim mate, old sponge or similar then I added some Phytoplankton and pods. They like colder temp so put it in my garage (around 45-50 degrees right now). 24 hour lighting. Those little buggers are swimming all over the place now!

Mical · Jan 28, 2020

You asked for it. These were cleaned Sunday (it's Tuesday now) They have to be cleaned weekly and both have overflows into "catch" containers. The 120g has a Bubble Magus Curve 5 & the 65g has a Reef Octopus BH50 (it's very tight quarters under my 65g) both work great.

Daniel@R2R · Jan 28, 2020

Here's mine! probably time to dump it...

Silent · Jan 28, 2020

Daniel@R2R · Jan 28, 2020

@living_tribunal with all that coral poop in your thread, you guys are bound to have foamy skimmers.

Waynerock · Jan 28, 2020

Terri Caton said:
I've been around beaches that were being dredged. Smells just like that.

Tip: GREAT use for skimmate. I started a super simple pod propagation. Tank water, skim mate, old sponge or similar then I added some Phytoplankton and pods. They like colder temp so put it in my garage (around 45-50 degrees right now). 24 hour lighting. Those little buggers are swimming all over the place now!

I like it

living_tribunal · Jan 28, 2020

Daniel@R2R said:
@living_tribunal with all that coral poop in your thread, you guys are bound to have foamy skimmers.

You have an art form Daniel, you’re clearly a man who appreciates the finer things in life.

I like where this thread is headed already.

Mical · Jan 28, 2020

living_tribunal said:
You have an art form Daniel, you’re clearly a man who appreciates the finer things in life.

I like where this thread is headed already.

Yep, right down the toilet

LadyMac · Jan 28, 2020

Yummy. I dump it every couple days.

Daniel@R2R · Jan 28, 2020

LadyMac said:
Yummy. I dump it every couple days.

NICE!

Scrubber_steve · Jan 28, 2020

Skimmer Foam Photo Thread

LOL, what will they think of next?

I don't use a skimmer, so here's my contribution

MTBake · Jan 28, 2020

Wish I seen this earlier, I just cleaned mine.

Adam @Battlecorals has a pretty awesome video out there cleaning his skimmer cup. That's some nastiness right there