Do skimmers oxygenate the water?

[Creetin]

i have a 400L H&S skimmer on my 2.5ft tank. Am wondering will it oxygenate my water enuff for me to dose AZ-N03 without an additional air source like a air pump?

[FuEl]

Az-NO3 if I'm not wrong will cause your skimmer to foam like crazy. Meaning by rights your skimmer should also oxygenate your water more effectively.

[Creetin]

yeah. just tat i heard horror stories abt floating fish after dosing of tat stuff. n den mi fren said tat mi skimmer (which is fairly large) shld be able to oxygenate e water enuff for me not to add an additional air source.....

[FuEl]

Suggest you underdose slightly. It's always better to err on the side of caution.

[tineng]

yeap, the do oxyenate water....my skimmer when down on Sat......both blue tang and purple firefish died, my clown was near death, put in a air stone and was able to retrive the clown.....so i deduce that skimmer does oxyenate water....

[Achilles Tang]

Skimmers are like airstones, they introduce loads of tiny bubbles into the water and this water is returned back into the sump... logically they do oxygenate very well.

[bwilly]

yeap, the do oxyenate water....my skimmer when down on Sat......both blue tang and purple firefish died, my clown was near death, put in a air stone and was able to retrive the clown.....so i deduce that skimmer does oxyenate water....

if u do not have a overflow system, then protein skimmer is especially important.

the splashing cause by the overflow create oxygen exchange from air n water..

also from the downflow pipe to your sump.

I used to run cannister, forgot to on my skimmer, quite a few fishes died.

[tineng]

I have a internal overflow....it used to be enough with the same amount of fish, but now its seems that its not enough....

I suspect that as the tank become more and more mature, there are too many bacteria...thus tanking up all the oxgen....

[Achilles Tang]

Yup, oxygenation of saltwater in marine tanks is very important. IME, a marine tank will crash quite quickly compared to a freshwater one when there is a drop in oxygen.

Any form of treatment which affects oxygen levels must be supplemented with an airstone or a skimmer.

It is good to have good water circulation in a marine tank... don't skimp on powerheads or wavemaking devices.

[bwilly]

IOS goes thru the IOS box creating some splash n oxygen exchange.

from the return flow pipe it goes into the sump box, the down force created plenty of bubbles upon hitting my filter media. should be enuff.

I also have my photoperiod for refugium to come at nite.

run a airstone if u running some medication in the tank to play safe.