How much gunk should come out of the skimmer a day?

The friendliest place on the web for anyone with an interest in aquariums or fish keeping!
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.

eddiedellz

Aquarium Advice Regular
Joined
Jul 23, 2004
Messages
68
Location
brooklyn ny
How much gunk should come out of the skimmer a day? Im not sure how to tune this thing or how much shoudl be comming out of it :T
 
Depends on many things. How big is your tank? How long has it been set up? What fish? Live rock? And what kind of skimmer?
 
How much stuff is coming out of it? With that small of a bio load I don't think you should be getting a lot. In fact it should take a week or more to even fill the collection cup half way.
 
Yeah, that is an extremely light load for a 75. Again, depending on the kind of skimmer you have, I wouldn't expect to see much skimmate.
 
I got 75 gal with 120lbs LR, 40lbs LS, seaclone 150 skimmer, & 3 fishes (2 ocellaris clown & 1 blue damsel) I barely get any skimmate but I think that my snails make more mess than them
 
Back
Top Bottom