THE DIRTY SKIMMER "CUP" - lets all play along

How often do you clean your skimmer cup

  • every few days

    Votes: 56 21.2%
  • weekly

    Votes: 130 49.2%
  • bi-weekly

    Votes: 51 19.3%
  • monthly

    Votes: 12 4.5%
  • hardly ever

    Votes: 3 1.1%
  • automated drain/self cleaning

    Votes: 12 4.5%

  • Total voters
    264
Day 1
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Bubble King Mini 180
90 gal mixed Reef
30 gal Sump w/ Refugium
No GFO No Carbon
6 Clownfish, 4 Firefish Gobys, 3 Tangs, 1 Mandarin Dragonet, 1 Leopard Wrasse
1 cube of Rods Food mixed with Reef-Roids & Reef Chili & Amino's every other day.

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FTS on 12-8-14 for reference:

Love the wall!:)
 
Hey guys!
My tank is a 120 with a 20 gallon sump. It's only filtration is the rock, skimmer and some filter wool. I occasionally run carbon too. The skimmer is an Aqua-One G220 Pro-Skim rated for up to 800 litres (211 gallons). The tank hasn't been filled long enough for me to figure out a good water change schedule yet. It was half filled with livestock in it for a few months and only in the last week or so have I filled it the rest of the way and started using the sump and skimmer.
Live stock at the moment is a few small Palaemon Serenus shrimp. There's about 10-20 in there and are all about an inch long or less. A tiny sand goby who's about an inch, maybe even smaller and a smooth toadfish who's about 6 inches long.
I like to feed very heavily. I love big, fat fish who love to eat! I have a few home made foods I feed, most of them consist of chopped seafood, but others have some special extras in them.
This is my collection cup, nice and clean :)
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And this is the skimmer up and running with a beer bottle collection jug thing. Don't really know what to call that lol. I usually use a closed airline tap to block off the drain, but it's been misplaced at the moment lol.
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I would like to point out that the skimmer has only just been added to the tank and I haven't tuned it in just yet, I'm getting a much wetter skim than I would like.

Just wanted to point out that this skimmer looks like it is really deep in water. I would check what the best operating depth is by the manufacturer and adjust it with egg-crate or something similar to build up the base. Good luck!
 
Digging how folks are adding a pic of the tank/tanks ran on the skimmer also. Super cool folks - keep um coming
 
220 Gal Display
75 Gallon Sump
Kalk through ATO
Secret weapon - BIOPELLETS
Skimmer: SKIMZ SM201

Coral:
Mostly SPS, but no acros since I had aefw a few months ago. A few shrooms

Fish:
Adult Emperor, Adult Naso, Adult PBT, Adult Niger Trigger, Adult Picasso Trigger, Lemonpeel Angel, pair of Black Snowflake Clowns

Just Cleaned:

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Here's my entry.
Skimmer: reef octopus dnwb-110 recirculating (external) fed by my return pump

Fish are:
2 proquatics snowflakes
2 fire fish
1 mystery wrasse
(Man I need more fish lol)

Total water volume is roughly 70g. I run a light amount of both carbon and gfo and do a 10% weekly water change. It's a mixed reef but a majority of the corals are zoas and palys

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FTS from about a week ago
 
240g, 4 x D155e reef radiance led fixtures, 55g sump, 50g fuge. Swc 230 skimmer. Gfo, carbon and purigen all in media bags.
1 regal angel
1 black long nose tang
1 white tail bristletooth tang
1 magnificent Foxface
2 Picasso clowns
Mixed corals
1 ritteri anemone
4 snails (I know I know, more are gonna be coming)

Skimmer just cleaned
 

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Skimmer cleaner!

Tank Setup:
Reef Octopus SRO-3000int (Rated for 200-400G)
150G DT, 75G sump/fuge combo (Total water volume is 200G)
Normally run GFO, but ran out a week & a half ago and just remembered what I was suppose to go pick up this weekend. :ohwell:
Dosing 80ml of vinegar a day

Fish:
1 Niger Trigger
1 Harlequin Tusk
1 Chainlink Moray

Clean skimmer:
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Here are the pics of the clean skimmer!
But first the info:

120 gal. display
3 large tangs total of 12 fish
lots of large corals and zoas, ricordias, favia
20 gal. refugium growing Chaeto
15 gal. secondary sump
Protein Skimmer My Reef Creations MR-1 rated to 175 gal.
app. net system volume 110 Gal.

MRC MR-1
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Skimate Reservoir
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120 gal display
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Stacked refugium and secondary sump.
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Cadlights Pls-150
120 Gal + Sump
11 fish
Mixed reef
 

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80g total
ATI bubble master 160 psk1000 with atb purple needle wheel
GFO and carbon
3 damsels
Fire fish
Disbar anthias
Picasso clown

99% SPS
 

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I forgot to post day 1. Taken last night.
Awesome that it's sideways, thank you tappatalk!

60g DT/40br Sump
fish:
2 clowns
pseudochromis
2 purple firefish
tonomi tang
flame hawkfish

2 (more clown) living in sump
 

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Stock list includes, 5 year old Maroon Clown, Two Green Chromis, decent sized Hi Hat, Six Line Wrasse.
Corals are GSP, Finger Leather, Giant LTA.
Skimmer is a Reef Octopus Diablo XS-200
Export media is BRS Carbon and BRS GFO
I cleaned out the Skimmer pump as well as it was making a loud humming noise due to gunk.

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IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%
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