Flaxon-Waxon
Aquarium Advice Addict
You can at least access it from doors, right?? I clean my sump that way. It isn't comfy, but it works. And I have a mini gravel vac that i suck detritus that gets in the bottom out. Sometimes if you can take the top off your skimmer as you should do every few days to once per week anyway, you may be able to get the skimmer out w/ the top chamber off. But yeah, I don't think you need to clean the bottom chamber that often. All's mine had was some minimal small white things, polychaete on it when I got it used w/ the tank & stock. My skimmer top chamber gets dirty pretty quick though! I've been cleaning that every 3 days or so. Good luck!!
Tango- yes! I do have access to it from the doors lol, that would be no bueno if I didn't... I gather from the posts that a deep cleaning on the chamber isn't too imperative, but I will vac out all the detritus that settles there. Thanks for the response!