Marine Aquariums South Africa

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Protein Skimmer Maintenance

Being a guy who likes simple filtration i invested in the biggest skimmer i could find at the best possible price.
As this is my only real source of filtration i make a point of keeping a close eye on my skimmer and its yield of skimmate.
Since adding some big surgeon i have had to up my feeding to include more frequent meaty foods into their diet and thus i watch my skimmer more even closley than ever now

Some critical points i feel we need to check are:

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