Skimmate

my sisters little Aqua medic biostar.. low biolaod for here tank, on 5 little fish under 4cm.2days skimmate....
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my skimmer,Aquamedic blue 3000, 1 1/2 days skimmate.
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Yip, thanks Andrew, undoubtedly one of the best purchases I have ever made.
 
Mine is now starting to produce some decent skimmate - just a little bit slow still - produced about 2.5 cm (from the bottom of the cup) in +-5 days.... Color - dark green/brown'ish.... Will post pics soon...
 
Here you are - pics of the skimmate being produced by my 2 x skimmers:
(sorry about the quality - photo's taken with my cell-phone)

My latest addition (TS2):
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My "old faithful" (Prizm Pro):
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Sorry about the 2nd photo - there was some salt creep/build-up and I did not have the time early this morning (when I took the photo's), to clean it off... You should be able to make out the skimmate level, about a third from the bottom....
The skimmate that THIS little "crappy" skimmer produces is amazingly dark and stinky. Even though it is set to run "wet".... This skimmate is from about 2 days ago from when I last cleaned it.

I still have to see what the verdict is on the TS2.... I have played around with the "water levels" a little bit more - and currently the skimmer is skimming a little bit better (getting more skimmate a little bit quicker) - this is after it started skimmer for the 1st time, about 5 days ago.
 
No offense to anyone , but my next skimmer will definately be a Reefocto .... from wot `ve
 
No offense to anyone , but my next skimmer will definately be a Reefocto .... from wot `ve

Internal or external? The external are absolute dynamite have never used the internal [reeftek] but folk seem very happy with them.
 
Alright thought i would post it here aswell the comparison of the Reef Octo after all the mods and tha ATI BM. Both of the skimmers had collected for 4 days and the BM runs slightly wetter than the Octo.

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Alan what is that cotton wool in the outlet pipe of the BM for ?
 
Its the air inlet and the batting acts as an air filter, you will be surprised how dirty it gets.
 
Yeah, the 2 air inlets go into the bottom of that pipe. ATI call it the snorkel.
 
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