Mcmcoker
Aquarium Advice Activist
I'm finally on the road to a reef ready tank. Recently purchased power heads, a quad t5 and a hob skimmer. I don't have a sump and this is the reason for the post. I bought a D&D typhoon hob skimmer. It took about three days to break in and is now really rolling the skim, however it is also still blowing a ton of micro bubbles into the tank. Needless to say this is far from aestheticly pleasing. I know that all hob skimmers will do this to some extent or another. I also know that over time it may calm down a bit more. My question is, for the time being will I be hurting the tank in any way if I only run it at night. In my case from 7pm to 7am. The tank is also running a hob floss filter with carbon and gfo. This filter is of course running 24/7. Also my bioload is pretty minimal at the moment. Oh and the skimmer is rated for a 125gal tank and my tank is only 36gal. So all in all I'm just wanting to make sure this wouldn't cause a tank crash or or that the skimmer would still work properly being turned off and on