Thread: Green skimmate
View Single Post
Unread 10/05/2006, 12:36 AM   #2
jdieck
Registered Member
 
jdieck's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maumee, OH
Posts: 15,673
It depends what is it pulling out. A lot of the brown stuff comes from feed and fish poo, in your case with a new tank I think the skimmer is pulling mostly microalgae stuff thus the green color.


__________________
Did I write what I wrote? What the heck am I talking about! Well..... Nevermind.

Current Tank Info: 225 gal reef, DSB, 40 g sump w/ LRT100 return, 37 g pre-sump, 3 MH 250 W 15K, 4 96 W PC dual actinic,ETS 1500 Skim.w/LRT70, 20 lb Ca R., 40 W UV, 1/3 HP chiller, two 350 W Htrs, Neptune II Cont., 330 P LR/ 330 P LS. 55 gal Refugium
jdieck is offline   Reply With Quote